The midget intellectuals who regurgitate academic jargon about justice can go on and on dispensing academic judgments on poor little us, but my people, whom I know well, they applaud the wisdom of my policies — that is: heal the wounds, reconcile, and move on… I am not going to play Don Quixote de la Mancha of justice to pursue every seen or unseen culprit of the past.
I mean, wow. The wisdom of his policies. I don't know if JRH has been at the whiskey or what's been going on with him, but this story in the Irish Times came the day after Amnesty International sent out a press release stating that Ramos-Horta had done a 180 and decided he is now in favour of an international tribunal for human rights violations committed in Timor-Leste.
What is he thinking pulling this kind of stuff while he isn't even in the country? I at first wondered if Amnesty had misquoted him or maybe misinterpreted what he said, but I can't say either way for sure. Amnesty's press release doesn't mention when or where he made the comments and he isn't actually directly quoted, so we'll have to wait and see.
It looks like he is taking pot shots at the UN from afar. But he wasn't speaking up when indicted militia leader Maternus Bere was freed by Xanana Gusmao et al. Ramos-Horta was even involved in the freeing.
AN East Timorese government delegation led by Prime Minster Xanana Gusmao is in China looking for support for its bid for a major gas processing plant to be built in East Timor instead of Darwin.
Woodside Petroleum, part of the joint venture with Conoco Phillips, Shell and Osaka Gas to develop the billion-dollar Sunrise gas project, has ruled out East Timor for the site of the gas processing plant.
But East Timor's government said onshore development for the Greater Sunrise gasfield in East Timor could "transform' the impoverished nation.
From Macau Hub, which isn't usually the most reliable news source:
East Timor’s Foreign Affairs Minister Zacarias da Costa has said that East Timor is negotiating a loan from China to fund the country’s large infrastructure projects.
Minister da Costa also told Lusa that “China’s interest in access Timorese oil resources” would also be discussed.
"We are concerned about [pedophilia and prostitution] because it is such a serious, grave and important issue for other countries, and yet our country responds like it is not a big deal. This will suggest to people from other countries that Timor-Leste is a place that practises pedophilia and prostitution, which will impact the state’s ethics and morals," said MP Francisco Branco.
President Jose Ramos-Horta speaking about press freedom: "The media often make mistakes in their reports, that is true, but how many more mistakes, more serious, has government made? When government makes mistakes, we can lose millions of dollars, and yet no one holds us responsible."
