recomeçou a violência em Timor...

infelizmente recomeçou a violência em timor... xanana em vez de fazer um governo alargado de reconcliliação nacional com a fretilin uniu-se a dois partidos minoritários e o resultado está à vista...
Smh.com.au - Michael Bachelard July 15, 2012 

Smh.com.au - Michael Bachelard July 15, 2012

One person is feared dead as violence erupted in East Timor, apparently prompted by political party Fretilin being excluded from a role in the new governing coalition.

Violence was reported in the capital Dili, as well as the outer districts of Viqueque and Baucau. A number of cars were burned and one person died in the conflict in the Dili suburb of Comoro, outside the headquarters of the ruling CNRT party, a source has said.

The fragile democracy had this year managed a presidential election and a run-off election for president, as well as a parliamentary election without significant violence, but the announcement today by Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao that he would invite two minor parties into a coalition to form government for the next five years appears to have triggered the violence.

Hopes were high among Fretilin supporters that they might also be invited to join a “government of national unity”.

But Mr Gusmao dashed those hopes at a special meeting of his National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction in Comoro, Dili, announcing he would govern with the Democratic Party and a new breakaway from Fretilin, Frenti-Mudanca.

Sources suggested that the violence had been triggered by one of the CNRT delegates at the meeting who strongly criticised the leaders and members of Fretilin, which has spent the past five years in opposition.

A source told Fairfax that houses owned by CNRT figures in some of the outer districts may have been torched, but this is unconfirmed.

East Timor was wracked by violence in 2006 and again in 2007, prompting Australian and United Nations forces to move into the country to help keep the peace.

The latest outbreak may jeopardise their plans to leave at the end of this year, once the new government was bedded down.

In last week's election, Mr Gusmao's party increased its vote from 24 per cent in 2007 to 36 per cent. Fretilin received 30 per of the vote and 25 seats, PD (Democratic Party) - backed by outgoing president Jose Ramos-Horta - gained 10 per cent and eight seats and Frenti-Mudanca 3 per cent and two seats.

The CNRT's general secretary said forming a coalition with PD and Frenti-Mudanca was in the best interest of stable government.

A Fretilin MP, Estanislau da Silva, said earlier he was not disappointed by yesterday's decision. "We would have liked to contribute," he said. "We have experience. But that is their decision."

The vote and negotiations were seen as a vital test of whether the 1300 UN peacekeepers can withdraw from the country. They are expected to leave at the end of the year.

With Mouzinho Lopes and Joyce Morgan

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