Timor Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta defended his decision to pardon rebels. -- PHOTO: REUTERS STRAITS TIMES - Oct 23, 2010
DILI - Timor Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta on Saturday defended his decision to pardon rebels in the tiny nation following criticism by a UN envoy.
The UN special representative for Timor Leste, Ameerah Haq, raised concerns earlier this week about policing and the commuting of prison terms for some involved in unrest.
Ms Haq expressed her concern to Mr Ramos-Horta after he freed those jailed for attacks against him and the prime minister in February 2008 as well as soldiers convicted for killing eight police officers in 2006.
'I pardoned them based on humanitarian grounds. After assessing the circumstances that occurred in 2006, this young nation has many victims and they (those being pardoned) are also victims,' Mr Ramos-Horta said.
'It was not their wish to do such thing. They had protested and we had no chance for a solution at the time,' he said of the assassination attempt against him.
Mr Ramos-Horta said since he made the decision to pardon them, there had been peace and order in the country. 'Our constitution says that we have to consider circumstances, so we want to give justice to our specific situation,' he added. -- AFP
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And to think that a few years dirty dog Horta thought he might be appointed UN Secretary-General!
He knows damn well that there will be no long term peace in Timor-Leste without proper justice.
'No peace without justice'
Ms Haq can now get off her incompetent high horse and get real to accept fact that there was never was an assassination attempt on behalf of the so called rebels... who coincidently happened to be funded by Horta himself. PR Horta knows this fully well an that is precisely the reason that led him to pardon them.
"PR Horta knows this fully well an that is precisely the reason that led him to pardon them."
It seems that they coordinated well in telling half truth about Fretilin to overthrow the government but when come to lying about themselves they simply cannot coordinate. When such things happens you have Ms Haq and the PR. What a mess!
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