81. RN: Jose Ramos Horta: Walk A Mile In My Shoes. Transcript Catching a UN helicopter from Dili, jose Ramos Horta has flown to a jose Ramos Horta We are in Atsabe, a subdistrict of Ermera not too far from the http://www.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/01augmile.htm

BACK DOOR Newsletter on East Timor home August news Picture an election where the media has no real influence, an election where, if you want to take your message to the people, you have to fly to remote mountaintops, or drive for hours on treacherous roads and risk attacks from violent gangs. An election where if you’re to have any chance of winning, you’ve got to have the blessing of the church. An election where voters are scared to go to the ballot box because the last time they did, they saw their houses go up in flames and blood flow in the streets. ... this week ... we go on a campaign trail like no other, with Jose Ramos Horta in East Timor, as his country literally invents its own institutions." Gerald Tooth See also: BD: Peoples' Participation - A collection of recent media releases, reports and articles BD: FRETILIN - Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor / Frente Revolucionaria do Timor Leste Independente - A collection of recent speeches, documents, statements, news and reports Radio National background briefing Jose Ramos Horta : Walk a Mile in My Shoes Produced by Gerald Tooth Sunday 5/08/01 Hear this Background Briefing in Real Audio http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/audio/bb_050801.ram

82. Letter From Dr. Jose Ramos Horta / Media Coverage / News / Home - Solco Ltd Letter from Dr. jose Ramos Horta prize winner Doctor jose Ramos Horta for work completed in East Timor, this touched all staff at Solar Energy Systems. http://www.solco.com.au/news/solco_news/letter_from_dr_jose_ramos_horta

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83. Jose Ramos Horta Speech speech by jose Ramos Horta, East Timorese Activist. http://www.mapw.org.au/congress/josespeech.htm

Jose Ramos Horta 1996 Nobel Peace Prize Co-Laureate IPPNW Nobel Oration INTERNATIONAL PHYSICIANS FOR PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR WAR XIII World Congress Melbourne, Australia 6 December 1998 East Timor - a footnote of the Cold War Perestroika and end of the Cold War The end of a myth A window of opportunity for human rights ... The East Timor conflict and the futility of war Mr. President, Members of the Board, Distinguished Physicians, Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Friends, My sincere appreciation for the kind invitation extended to me to join you this year on the occasion of the Xlllth World Congress of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Addressing such a prestigious group as yours is not only a great honor. There is also the opportunity to meet with so many dedicated physicians, scientists, peace activists, human rights defenders, and for this I am very grateful. Your profession is one of the most delicate, stressful and rewarding. Physicians are trusted by their patients and the community as they would trust the local priest. Hence you can be a potent force for peace, tolerance, reconciliation. You have my admiration for your commitment to social justice and peace. We are gathering here today together with millions of our fellow human beings all over the world who are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). In the course of this half century significant progress has been made in the promotion and protection of human rights. Numerous treaties, conventions, declarations and resolutions have been adopted. Enforcement mechanisms have been established to follow up on the implementation of the binding treaties and conventions.

84. East Timor | Current Issues Briefing José ramoshorta spoke at the Institute on September 17th. José ramos-horta discussed the August 30th East Timor autonomy referendum, the ensuing violence, http://www.usip.org/events/pre2002/ramos-horta_cib-rpt.html

Responding to the Crisis in East Timor Address of 1996 Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize Audio Files U.S. Institute of Peace 1200 17th St. Washington, D.C. Institute on September 17th. The following 13 files contain the entire address. You may listen to them in series or separately. Archived Audio (Available by Segment) Ramos Remarks Part 1 Ramos-Horta discusses the mood of East Timorese towards the Republic of Indonesia and its possible participation in the UN Multinational Force. Ramos Remarks Part 2 Ramos-Horta discusses the difficulty of integrating Indonesian soldiers in the UN Multinational Force. Ramos Remarks Part 3 Ramos-Horta discusses the Indonesian security forces, the militias, and the August 30 autonomy referendum. Ramos Remarks Part 4 Ramos-Horta discusses violence in the East and West Timor border region, and its intended impact on the New York Agreement. Ramos Remarks Part 5 Ramos-Horta discusses attacks by Indonesian forces in Dili prior to the referendum vote. Ramos Remarks Part 6 Ramos-Horta discusses the destabilizing nature of the Indonesian Army; the the de facto independence of East Timor.

85. Speak Truth To Power Defender José ramoshorta received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996 for his Twenty-five-year-old José ramos-horta was named foreign minister of the newly formed http://www.speaktruth.org/defend/profiles/profile_33.asp

HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCES Read About This HR Issue View Human Rights Timeline Glossary of Terms Declaration of Human Rights Related HR Organizations ... HR Defenders by Location Select a HR Issue Human Rights Burma Children Conflict Death Penalty Disability Disappeared Disarmament Domestic FGM Free Expression Honor Killings Immigration Indigenous Internat'l Law Landmines Laogai Microcredit Multinat'l Corp. Police Brutality Political Rights Religious Freedom Torture Sex Trafficking War Crimes Women Kerry Kennedy I wanted to be a journalist. In my late teens I began working as a reporter in Dili, the capital, for a local newspaper, The Voice of Timor. I managed to get an extra job in radio presenting news, and a part-time job on Portuguese television, where I started to shoot news stories for them, and, afterwards, wrote the news myself. In the process, I became very pro-independence, very critical of the Portuguese colonial rule. (No offense to the Portuguese today who have done an outstanding job for East Timor. But the colonial Portuguese pre-1975 were so incompetent and lazy and did nothing to really develop the country.) When I was only twenty I started working at the tourist information department, and made some outrageous remarks while having drinks with two guys, one from the U.S. The next day I was called in by the Portuguese political security police, the famous PIDE, notorious in Portugal and Africa for using torture against civilians. They repeated everything that I had said about them. I was impressed. Two days later I was again interrogated, for hours, lost my job, and left for Mozambique for two years. They did not torture me—just interrogated me and I left. I don’t want to pretend that I was a hero. If I were not drunk, I would not have said what I said. That was my defense, also. To which they said, "It doesn’t matter. You thought it. You actually believe it."

86. Foreign Minister: Joint Press Conference With East Timor Foreign Minister, Jose jose RAMOS HORTA EAST TIMOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER. Alexander, thank you very much for receiving me and the rest of my delegation today. http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/transcripts/2004/040811_jrh.html

:: Home :: Biography :: Department :: Speeches ... :: Website Feedback The Hon. Alexander Downer, MP MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, AUSTRALIA E and OE August 11, 2004 Transcript Joint Press Conference with East Timor Foreign Minister, Jose Ramos Horta DOWNER : Ladies and gentlemen, I hope we're more or less on time. Question time finished slightly later than we had expected. I want to say what a pleasure it has been to have my old friend, Jose Ramos Horta here with me today in Canberra. I invited him quite a few weeks ago now to come down here and have a further talk about the Timor Sea issue. Just to put this into some perspective, Jose and I - with officials and others - negotiated the Timor Sea treaty under which we - he did very well in those negotiations. He got ninety per cent of the revenue from the joint development area, and I got ten per cent. We also negotiated the international unitisation agreement for the Greater Sunrise field, and that has been signed, it's been ratified here, and we hope will be ratified before long in East Timor by the East Timor parliament. And today, we've had a further discussion, because we met together in Jakarta in - I guess - in June. We've briefly met in Bangkok as well a couple of weeks - three or four weeks ago. But we've had yet a further discussion about the other East Timor-Australia Timor Sea issues. We've had a very good discussion. I would say a very successful discussion. I think, as a result of these discussions, we can find a way through which will be beneficial to the people of East Timor, but will also be satisfactory as far as the Australian people are concerned. Both of us agree that given that we are now getting much closer to agreement on the framework for a settlement, if not the details of a settlement, that we can move the negotiations forward somewhat faster. And we'll certainly be endeavouring to try to wind up the negotiations by the end of this calendar year - by - well, realistically, by Christmas time. There's no guarantee we'll be able to do that. But given the direction of our talks today, and the goodwill there is between the two of us, which there always has been, I think that we can take this forward more quickly now.

87. José Ramos-Horta On The Future Of East Timor José ramoshorta, Nobel laureate and Foreign Minister of the Democratic Republic of East Timor, was a leading figure in the country s liberation movement. http://www.ciaonet.org/wps/shn02/

88. José Ramos Horta - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia José Ramos Horta was the Permanent Representative of Fretilin to the UN for Foreign Minister in exile, José ramoshorta represented his nation at the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Ramos_Horta

Jos© Ramos Horta From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jos© Manuel Ramos Horta (born December 26 ) has been Foreign Minister of East Timor since independence in , having previously been a spokesman for the East Timorese resistance in exile during the years of Indonesian occupation between and He was born in Dili , the capital of East Timor, to a Timorese mother and Portuguese father who had been exiled to East Timor by the Salazar dictatorship. He was educated in a Catholic mission in the small village of Soibada, later chosen by Fretilin as headquarters after the Indonesian invasion. Of his eleven brothers and sisters, four were killed by the Indonesian military. He was actively involved in the development of political awareness in what was then Portuguese Timor which caused him to be exiled for two years in to Portuguese East Africa . It was a family tradition as his grandfather had also suffered exile, from Portugal to the Azores Islands, then Cape Verde Portuguese Guinea and finally to Portuguese Timor A moderate in the emerging Timorese nationalist leadership, he was appointed Foreign Minister in the "Democratic Republic of East Timor" government proclaimed by the pro-independence parties in November . When appointed minister, Ramos Horta was only 25 years old. Ramos Horta left East Timor three days before the Indonesian troops invaded to plead the Timorese case before the

89. Jose Ramos Horta, Nobel Peace Laureate, Speaks For Leyla Zana jose Ramos Horta 1996 Nobel Peace Prize CoLaureate Free Leyla Zana Reception 28 May 1996. The honor is mine to be here, to try to lend my humble and faint http://kurdistan.org/Articles/horta.html

Jose Ramos Horta, Nobel Peace Laureate, Speaks for Leyla Zana Wednesday, May 28, 1997 Washington, DC Jose Ramos Horta 1996 Nobel Peace Prize Co-Laureate Free Leyla Zana Reception 28 May 1996 The honor is mine to be here, to try to lend my humble and faint voice to a cause, a people , the Kurdish people, in one of the most critical strategic regions of the world, a people who have been betrayed by almost every major power in the world, a people who have been one of the greatest inspirations to all of us. You may have read a story in The Washington Post today which refers to a refusal on the part of the White House to meet with me. I can only say that my ambition in life is not to sleep in the Lincoln bedroom. It is not my ambition either to walk through the gates of the White House, as it was not my ambition in life to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Back in October, when I got the news, my plan was to have a full weekend. I was playing with one of the loveliest creatures in the world, a 2 year-old girl, a niece of mine, when the news came that I had been selected along with Bishop [Carlos Filipe Ximenes] Belo for the Nobel Peace Prize. I was surprised for many reasons.

90. A-Infos Hyper-Archive: (en) Jose Ramos Horta The joint 1996 Nobel Peace Prize winner, jose Ramos Horta, spoke to a large and diverse gathering in Adelaide, Australia last Friday (7/2/97) night. http://www.ainfos.ca/A-Infos97/1/0230.html

(en) Jose Ramos Horta a-infos-request@tao.ca Tue, 11 Feb 1997 00:52:34 GMT Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Next message: Francois Coquet: "(Fr) Monde Libertaire #1070 : Federation municipale de base" Previous message: a-infos-request@tao.ca: "(no subject)" A AA AAAA The A-Infos News Service AA AA AA AA INFOSINFOSINFOS http://www.tao.ca/ainfos/ AAAA AAAA AAAAA AAAAA The joint 1996 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jose Ramos Horta, spoke to a large and diverse gathering in Adelaide, Australia last Friday (7/2/97) night. This was just one of his many appearances on an Australia-wide tour during which Horta has made clear the total lack of moral backbone of Australia's leaders since the Indonesian invasion of Timor in 1975. On being introduced to the large crowd that had gathered in the Maughan Church, Horta was greeted by a long and hearty standing ovation given to him by an emotional crowd. Horta dedicated his Nobel Prize to the people of Timor and the now imprisoned Xanana Gusmao, who he considered to have been a person much more worthy of the Prize, describing his success as a very pleasant suprise and praising his fellow Laureate Bishop Bello. While most of the crowd was undoubtedly aware of the history of Indonesia's invasion of Timor, Horta gave a brief history of both his and Timor's struggle against the deadly combination of the Indonesian dictatorship's armed forces and the world's apathy. The duplicity of the United Nation's Security Council and the cynicism of the world's leaders was made clear by Horta, who pointed out that the suggested peace plan suggested by the Timorese for many years was the blueprint for the Israeli/Palestine agreement brokered last year.

91. International Campaign For Tibet: Campaigns: The Panchen Lama: Tibet's Stolen Ch Living in exile, East Timor leader José ramoshorta has spent the last 25 years denouncing the illegal invasion and annexation of this small country by http://www.savetibet.org/campaigns/pl/film/interviewramos-horta.php

Search the Site CAMPAIGNS Panchen Lama Tibetan Political Prisoners Lhasa-Golmud Railway ... "Tibet's Stolen Child" Interview with José Ramos-Horta Living in exile, East Timor leader José Ramos-Horta has spent the last 25 years denouncing the illegal invasion and annexation of this small country by Indonesia. In 1996 Ramos-Horta was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with fellow countryman Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, for their "sustained efforts to hinder the oppression of a small people." Due in part to his efforts, East Timor achieved independence in late 1999. Concerned with human rights worldwide, Ramos-Horta has proposed an association of Nobel Laureates to act as a force for peace in response to international concerns. I read the autobiography of His Holiness. I read other books on Tibet. Over the years, I was always fascinated by Tibet, by His Holiness, not for, I must confess, for any spiritual/religious motive. I was just curious about that strange, exotic place. So one day in New York I heard the Dalai Lama was going to be there. That was many, many years ago in the 70s, I believe. And I was among the first to line up, 'cause I want to have a close look at that exotic name and see his face. The difference, as I said is only by sheer luck on our part, I believe. In the height of the anti-colonialist struggle, Portugal was very isolated. The developing countries pushed that particular resolution and East Timor was included along with Angola, Mozambique, and so on.

92. JOSE RAMOS HORTA, AN INSPIRATION TO Subject jose RAMOS HORTA, AN INSPIRATION TO Amidst uncertainities in the struggle in East Timor, jose Ramos Horta is a good inspiration to all of us. http://www.burmalibrary.org/reg.burma/archives/199906/msg00622.html

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93. Jose Ramos Horta Biography jose Ramos Horta biography and related resources. jose Ramos Horta (born December 26, 1949) has been Foreign Minister of East Timor since independence http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Ramos_Horta_Jose.html

Biography Base Home Link To Us Search Biographies: Browse Biographies A B C D ... Z Jose Ramos Horta Biography Jose Ramos Horta (born December 26, 1949) has been Foreign Minister of East Timor since independence in 2002, having previously been a spokesman for the East Timorese resistance in exile during the years of Indonesian occupation betweeen 1975 and 1999. He was born in Dili, the capital of East Timor, to a Timorese mother and Portuguese father who had been exiled to East Timor by the Salazar dictatorship. He was educated in a Catholic mission in the small village of Soibada, later chosen by Fretilin as headquarters after the Indonesian invasion. Of his eleven brothers and sisters, four were killed by the Indonesian military. He was actively involved in the development of political awareness in what was then Portuguese Timor which caused him to be exiled for two years in 1970 - 1971 to Portuguese East Africa. It was a family tradition as his grandfather had also suffered exile, from Portugal to the Azores Islands, then Cape Verde, Portuguese Guinea and finally to Portuguese Timor. A moderate in the emerging Timorese nationalist leadership, he was appointed Foreign Minister in the "Democratic Republic of East Timor" government proclaimed by the pro-independence parties in November 1975. Ramos Horta left East Timor three days before the Indonesian troops invaded to plead the Timorese case before the United Nations.

94. Encyclopedia: José Ramos Horta José Ramos Horta of East Timor. Portuguese Timor is the former name José Ramos Horta was the Permanent Representative of Fretilin to the UN for the http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/José-Ramos-Horta

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95. Ncca - Jose Ramos Horta Asks Australia To Be A Good Neighbour jose Ramos Horta asks Australia to be a good neighbour. Media Release May 2004. Australia may be proud of its role in East Timor but it is acting selfishly http://www.ncca.org.au/archives/media_releases/2004/jose_ramos_horta_asks_austra

About us Departments NATSIEC CWS ... Home DHTML_MENU_rel_path = '/squizlib/dhtml_menu/images/'; Search: Home Archives Media Releases Jose Ramos Horta asks Australia to be a good neighbour Jose Ramos Horta asks Australia to be a good neighbour Media Release: May 2004 Australia may be proud of its role in East Timor but it is acting selfishly and illegally over oil, says Jose Ramos Horta, Foreign Minister of East Timor. He compares Australia’s role in oil talks, to “Bill Gates arguing with a taxi driver over a fare”. The richest country in the region should not be haggling with the poorest, he asserts. Dr Horta, speaking at a Sydney fundraising dinner, spoke of the many challenges facing East Timor as it approaches its second birthday. There is still much to be done in rebuilding infrastructure, increasing access to education and reducing disease and malnutrition. Dr Horta is cautiously optimistic about the future. East Timor should not rely exclusively on oil revenue but at the same time, that revenue would help to provide for basic services. “It is a matter of justice”, he said. Over 60 cases on international maritime boundaries had been decided on the 50/50 division between countries and only one - the agreement reached between Australia and Indonesia over the Timor Gap - had used a different formula. “Where is the justice in Australia’s stand?” Dr Horta asked. He was also critical of what he saw as Australia’s delaying tactics in the negotiations, which would only serve to benefit Australia.

96. Der Nobelpreis Für Den Frieden: José Ramos-Horta José ramos-horta *1949 http://www.nobelpreis.org/frieden/ramos-horta.html

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97. Paparazzi - Ramos-Horta, José Translate this page Zufaellige Begegnungen mit Prominenten und ca. 2.351 weitere Geschichten und Abschweifungen. http://www.hoeflichepaparazzi.de/forum/archive/index.php/t-16991.html

98. Lexikon José Ramos-Horta Translate this page José ramos-horta wurde in Dili, der Hauptstadt von Osttimor, Für die folgenden zehn Jahre war José ramos-horta der ständiger Vertreter der Fretilin bei http://lexikon.freenet.de/José_Ramos-Horta

E-Mail Mitglieder Community Suche ... Hilfe document.write(''); im Web in freenet.de in Shopping Branchen Lexikon Artikel nach Themen alphabetischer Index Artikel in Kategorien Weitere Themen Sarah und Marc: Erbkrankheit bedroht junges Familiengl¼ck Sexy Werbung f¼r neuen Duft: Shania Twain als Cowgirl IAA-Hingucker: AC Schnitzer motzt den BMW M6 auf Photoshow Elite: So bringt Nero Ord- nung in Ihre Fotos ... Filesharing: Jetzt wird im groŸen Stil zu Kasse gebeten! Sie sind hier: Startseite Lexikon Jos© Ramos-Horta Jos© Ramos-Horta Jos© Ramos-Horta 26. Dezember in Dili Osttimor ) ist seit der Unabh¤ngigkeit von Timor-Leste im Jahr AuŸenminister und war vorher offizieller Sprecher des Widerstandes im Exil w¤hrend der indonesischen Besatzung von bis Bearbeiten Biographie Jos© Ramos-Horta wurde in Dili , der Hauptstadt von Osttimor, geboren als Sohn einer einheimischen Mutter und eines Portugiesen , der wegen der Diktatur von Ant³nio de Oliveira Salazar aus seiner Heimat ins Exil ging. Ramos-Horta ging zur Schule in eine katholische Mission in dem kleinen Dorf Soibada, das sp¤ter nach der indonesischen Besatzung zum Hauptquartier der Fretilin ausgew¤hlt wurde, die f¼r die

99. José Ramos Horta José Ramos Horta Born 26Dec-1949 Birthplace Dili, East Timor. Gender Male Ethnicity Multiracial Sexual orientation Straight http://www.nndb.com/people/976/000090706/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Born: 26-Dec-1949 Birthplace: Dili, East Timor Gender: Male Ethnicity: Multiracial Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Politician, Activist Level of fame: Niche Executive summary: Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient Wife: Anna Pessoa Son: Moubere Lorosa'e de Silva-Horta (b. 1977) Law School: Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague, Netherlands (1983) University: MA Peace Studies, Antioch University (1984) University: Columbia University Professor: Oxford University Exiled Nobel Peace Prize Portuguese Ancestry Paternal East Timor Ancestry Maternal Do you know something we don't? Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile

100. José Ramos Horta José Ramos Horta s speech at National Commissioners Swearingin Ceremony. (excerpts). January 21, 2002. Today, roughly 6 months after the East Timorese http://www.easttimor-reconciliation.org/JRH speech at ceremony.htm

José Ramos Horta's speech at National Commissioners' Swearing-in Ceremony (excerpts) January 21, 2002 Today, roughly 6 months after the East Timorese National Council approved to establish a Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation, and the Transitional Administrator, Mr. Vieira de Mello, signed Regulation No. 2001/10 on the establishment of such a Commission, We are gathered here to officially swear-in the newly selected National Commissioners that will head this important body. In less than 6 months from today, East Timor will become an independent nation, committed to the principles of peace, democracy and the rule of law. As part of our preparation for this new reality, we have chosen to take a long and hard look at the past. We want to learn from the lessons of the past so that we will be able to prevent similar tragedies in the future. At the same time, we wish to open the door of forgiveness and acceptance to those who were caught in the vicious cycle of violence. After an extensive process of consultation with the East Timorese people, legislation has been adopted, Commissioners have been nominated and selected, and

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