<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396</id><updated>2011-11-27T17:20:10.421-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"IT'S MY BLOG"</title><subtitle type='html'>"When every little thing disappeared and the truth is just a word, that's the time to stand up and yell out to the world."

"Let the people decide and DO NOT put much pressure on them, because they have suffered a lot of your greedy ambitions."</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>29</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-1397479119209117993</id><published>2010-04-27T22:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-27T22:11:33.896-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Trip to the Detached Part of Timor-Leste</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;12 hours on ferry Berlin Nakroma to Oecusse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;On the 26&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; of April, exactly at about 5 o’clock in the afternoon, the three of us, Matt, Sarah and I went to the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;port&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Dili&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; on a car provided by ICFJ. We were amazed with the crowded right at the front gate of the port, and we realized that we would have to squeeze together with these people in line and wait for the chance to get into the port area where a ferry, the Berlin Nakroma, was waiting for us.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Without much struggle, we managed to get on board. One of the ship’s crew greeted and gave us the key to the cabin where we stayed for the night as the trip takes about twelve hours to get to Oecusse. Sarah had a separate room, while Matt and I shared a cabin with two beds. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;We put our stuffs in the room and got a walk around for fresh air, and after finished smoking a cigarette, I then walked back to cabin where I met Sarah had just got out of her room and she asked me, “Where’s the bathroom?,” and I answered, “well, I’ve got no idea, but lets find out!” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;We took a walk around, downstairs, and finally we found them nearby a corridor where the other passengers were sitting and watching TV with an Indonesian television program on the screen. At the same time, we also found the small canteen where we could have hot water for coffee or to buy snacks, but it usually opens at 6 pm so we went back upstairs. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;After finishing another stick of cigarette, I went back to our room where I saw Matt was working on his news writing. I had a look at it for a while then I turned on the TV. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;I didn’t really know what to do on the ship, so I walked around again and again, then I saw Sarah on the other side of the ship, we had a chat for a while and stared at the dolphins jumping in and out of the sea in the distance. We hoped that the dolphins could get near the ship but they didn’t. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;I kept hanging around, back and forth until sunset and I went back to the room. There, I saw Matt lying down on his bed while watching TV and he offered some snacks to me that he bought before.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;As the time went by, I just realized that I couldn’t close my eyes; I went downstairs and buy a cup of coffee where I saw a bunch of people at the rear side of the ship smoking and drinking coffee as I was.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;So I joined them, and we had a chat and we spent our time, laughing and smoking, until the clock said “it’s midnight.” I greeted the people good night then I went back to the room. I saw Matt was already asleep then I climbed up to my bed and fell asleep. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;I never saw Sarah during the night, so she must had a very good sleep. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;I woke up when I heard the ship’s horning, I opened the curtain and looked outside but I couldn’t see anything. My phone vibrated, it’s the alarm and it’s 5 am, that means we were about to get to Oecusse port. Matt had already awake as well. And we greeted each other good morning. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;Wondering to see how the port looks like, I got out of the room, and rushed my way to left side of the ship, I saw nothing. It was dark. Then I rushed to the right side of the ship, I saw many people holding candles at the sea shore. I thought that it was probably a blackout that’s why people did it to show the ship that the port is still there. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;I was amazed, looking at the candles. I accidentally heard two guys talked to each other, “they are waiting for one of their family who died in Dili’s national hospital yesterday,” said the taller guy. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;“What?????” then I assured myself by asking these men, “is the body on board with us?” the other man replied, “yes.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;I became temporarily numb, and I couldn’t move for a moment. After gaining control over myself, I walked back to the room.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;“We are almost there,” I told Matt. Then I walked to Sarah’s room and knocked on the door, she opened up the door, “good morning, I just woke up,” she said. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;I never told Matt and Sarah about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;                                                                                                                                                &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-1397479119209117993?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/1397479119209117993/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=1397479119209117993&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/1397479119209117993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/1397479119209117993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2010/04/trip-to-detached-part-of-timor-leste.html' title='A Trip to the Detached Part of Timor-Leste'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-809155893944572288</id><published>2009-09-08T04:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-08T04:45:34.978-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Suai Commemorates Massacre, no Justice Achieved</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;By Sarmento Wargas from Lautem, Los Palos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Suai – The 10th Celebration of the ‘Black September’ Massacre in Suai is attended by approximately 1000 people including prime minister of Timor Leste, government members, parliament members, ambassadors and some other internationals, on Tuesday morning (8/9/09).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Francisco da Costa, a survivor of the massacre ten years ago who saw the killing of the three priests and other civilians, is also in attendance. He said that as a victim and family of the victims, he is happy because the ceremony is successfully done, but also unsatisfied because he couldn’t hear anything important about justice from the leaders during the ceremony.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Justice has been the main concern of the people in Suai. They have been pursuing the justice for all the victims’ families, but everything seems to have no hint.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We will always fight for justice. Back in the days we said, Death or Alive, Independence. But now we say death or alive, we will struggle for justice,” Francisco said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The decision to release Marternus Bere, former commander of Indonesian army-backed Laksaur militia, by the ministry of justice upon the order of the prime minister is believed to be due to pressure placed on the Timorese leaders by the Indonesian government, according to the press release of the National Union Party on Monday (7/9/09).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“You also know, for me, this is a tough decision to make but just because of my concern about the future of the nation, the future of its people, I think that the decision has to be made,” said Lucia Lobato, Minister of Justice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; The decision has become a hot topic for many people in the country. Arsenio Bano, a parliament member from the opposition party said, “It looks like there is no rule of law, there is no respect for the victims and respect for the constitution of this country.”&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-809155893944572288?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/809155893944572288/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=809155893944572288&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/809155893944572288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/809155893944572288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2009/09/suai-commemorates-massacre-no-justice.html' title='Suai Commemorates Massacre, no Justice Achieved'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-6640941514361844971</id><published>2009-09-05T22:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-05T23:04:58.159-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Silent Voices Longing for Justice</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SqNN24P2EVI/AAAAAAAAAH4/mPpdUf-Ro0w/s1600-h/IMG_0354.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378227985217622354" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 237px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 232px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SqNN24P2EVI/AAAAAAAAAH4/mPpdUf-Ro0w/s320/IMG_0354.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Is there a justice for the people…?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;After ten years of independence, a celebration is held in memory of all victims of the 'Black September' massacre in Suai church where hundreds of people died, nothing significant is achieved by any family members in the District.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;Suai is located in the southern part of Timor Leste, and it takes about eight hours to get there from Dili, the capital of Timor Leste. Besides the mountains and rivers along the way, there are a lot of panoramic views that will make you feel better after that long trip from Dili.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Surrounded by hills and rivers, right in middle of the Suai town, an unfinished church was once the witness of a cold blooded massacre that killed more than 200 people on September 6th, 1999. The attack happened in about nine o’clock in the morning. The military backed militias started shooting at the church where many people hid from the brutality of the militias around the town. Along with the victims, three priests were also murdered in the church.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After ten years, families of the victims remain silent and they keep their feeling of hatred and upset in their mind. Government, international and national NGOs have been visiting the place, making a lot of promises but none of them is actually done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manuel Soares “Babalai”, father of a murdered son and a kidnapped daughter told us that he doesn’t trust the government or any other organizations who are trying to provide helps. His daughter ALOLA is now in West Timor and her name has been used as the name of a famous organization based in Dili, The ALOLA FOUNDATION which is led by Kristy Sword Gusmão, wife of the recent Prime Minister Mr. Xanana Gusmão.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“They use our names to get money, but no one cares about what happen to us. They said that they are going to build our houses but as you can see there is nothing here. They only promise and promise but they do nothing” Manuel said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After this long time, they are still expecting that all the militias would be brought to justice but until now most of them are still free like animals at large and cannot be caught. They also insist the government to strengthen law and justice in the country. According to Manuel, the law in Timor Leste is only created for the poor people and not for the betrayers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A few weeks ago, police had made an arrest to a former militia leader his name is Marternus Berek, but why do they let him free again? If we make a mistake police will come an arrest us and we will imprisoned, but what happens to them? They are the killers," said Babalai.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="right"&gt;Written by Zexoroth&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Photo by; Mat Crook&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-6640941514361844971?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/6640941514361844971/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=6640941514361844971&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/6640941514361844971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/6640941514361844971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2009/09/silent-voices-longing-for-justice.html' title='The Silent Voices Longing for Justice'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SqNN24P2EVI/AAAAAAAAAH4/mPpdUf-Ro0w/s72-c/IMG_0354.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-4913030318778451653</id><published>2008-08-10T18:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-10T19:03:17.924-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Forum Tau Matan (FTM) organizes the 2nd Round of Critical Thinking Debate Program on Human Rights</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dili -&lt;/em&gt; A second round of debates among Timor-Leste university students began Monday and will last for ten days (11-22 August) in the Auditorium of Liceu, Universidade Nasional Timor Lorosa’e (UNTL).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333399;"&gt;Daily sessions will begin at 8:30 a.m. and conclude at 3 p.m. The public is invited to attend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The goal of the debate is to establish a youth parliament in the future, made up of representatives from all institutions of higher learning in Timor-Leste.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The debate will focus on a variety of national and international issues important to Timor-Leste. The issues to be discussed include:  rights for environmental health; international markets; oil resources policy and its management; employment in Timor-Leste and labor rights; the national perspective on land rights and housing policy; land problems and land disputes resolution; free markets; and national security, with a focus on illegal drugs and arms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each of the topics will be presented by government officials, representing the Ministry of Education; non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and university lecturers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The debates are preparation for a study tour with the Association for Critical Thinking in Jakarta. Students who participate in the debates will compete for a spot in the International Debate Championship, to be held at a future date. No further details about the international debate were available.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Universities that are participating in the debate are: UNTL; Universidade Dili (UNDIL); Universidade da Paz (UNPAZ); Universidade Comunidade Matebian (UCM) Baucau; ETIKA Gleno (Ermera); and also Dili Institute of Technology (DIT), Oecusse. Each University will have five representatives for a total participation of 30 students.&lt;br /&gt; The debate is a continuation of the first round, which was held during February and March 2008. The activity is sponsored by with Forum Tau Matan (FTM), OXFAM Australia, and Universidade Nasional Timor-Lorosa’e. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-4913030318778451653?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/4913030318778451653/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=4913030318778451653&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/4913030318778451653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/4913030318778451653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/08/forum-tau-matan-ftm-organizes-2nd-round.html' title='Forum Tau Matan (FTM) organizes the 2nd Round of Critical Thinking Debate Program on Human Rights'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-4773819285342439747</id><published>2008-07-16T18:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-16T18:06:34.045-07:00</updated><title type='text'>UNTL Radio AKADEMIKA</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;The Radio AKADEMIKA for Universidade Nasional Timor Lorosa’e (UNTL) has been on air since its first MOU signing on June 30th 2008, but until now no programs are launched due to the necessity of the radio itself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The radio programs have not been set up because the candidates for radio staffs are now still in the middle of radio journalism training. They are recently taught and guided about important journalism skills for radio by Timorese senior journalists from differing media outlets in Timor-Leste who are parts of TOT (Training of Trainers) at ICFJ (International Center for Journalists). Besides that, there are some visiting trainers from the neighboring countries like Indonesia, Australia and USA (ICFJ media trainers) helping the development of material for the training.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a campus radio, Radio AKADEMIKA is a very important tool for university students to express their ideas, and also as a medium of communication among students, lecturers, and also government officials whenever required.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-4773819285342439747?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/4773819285342439747/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=4773819285342439747&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/4773819285342439747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/4773819285342439747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/07/untl-radio-akademika.html' title='UNTL Radio AKADEMIKA'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-6304028130397712068</id><published>2008-07-11T00:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-11T00:16:48.723-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Observation of the week...!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330000;"&gt;During the week, there is shocking event that is happening in the country’s capital, Dili. The event is about the university students that are protesting the national parliament due to the car purchase for each parliament member. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;When I had a walk to the main campus of National University, I saw a great number of students gathering inside the campus, and I tried to walk in to have a look at what’s happening.&lt;br /&gt;Inside the campus, I could smell the leftover tear gas and I could feel the tears slowly running down my cheek, it’s not over yet because I even had a bit coughing at the time, and I ran out of the building because I couldn’t bear any longer. So I stepped back and sat under a tree. I took a deep breath again and again after I felt much better. I took a cigarette from my pocket, then I lit it up…haahh…I blow the smokes away…!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I calmed down for a while, and I offered my cigarette to one of the students there, he took the cigarette but I could see that he was not so happy at that time. After a few puffs, I tried to talk to him, and he turned to me, so we started talking…!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He told me something very interesting that I was looking for, he said that, they are still confused about some of their colleagues that have been arrested by the police and he also said that he doesn’t know what to do, but actually they have told their families. Furthermore, some of them still have to follow the exam. That’s why; they are consulting with the lecturers to give some extra time to the students so that they can follow the exam after they are released.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And other concern is that, because the police have given a deadline for them to stop the demonstration on Friday (11/7). But he added that, they are still thinking about the next step that should be taken if deadline comes. And I tried to ask him about it but he refused to talk about it…!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hopefully, it ends soon and the students will get back to focus on their study again... !!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-6304028130397712068?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/6304028130397712068/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=6304028130397712068&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/6304028130397712068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/6304028130397712068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/07/observation-of-week.html' title='Observation of the week...!'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-5908410585372587729</id><published>2008-07-10T23:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-10T23:33:02.828-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Students Protesting again in Dili</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Dili – There have been many students arrested because of protesting the national parliament in relation to the government decision to purchase cars by using country’s money for each parliament member. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Front of University Students from Universidade Nasional Timor Lorosa’e have been doing the demonstration for three days, started from July 7th  and until now there are about 39 students have been arrested by the police. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Commander of Community Police Unit, João Belo dos Reis, in a press conference on Monday (7/07) said that police arrested the students because they are protesting right in front of the parliament building.&lt;br /&gt;“Based on the constitution, a demonstration must be done 100 meters from public buildings,” he said. According to him, the demonstration is very close to the parliament and also that police have warned them to do it in the Democracy Field that is based on the agreement.&lt;br /&gt;“We told them to go to the Democracy Field, but they insist to do it at campus, that’s why we arrested them,” he said on Monday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While on the same day (Monday), the Minister of Education João Cancio Freitas told the reporters and it was published on TV, that Autonomy of Campus is not used for demonstration.&lt;br /&gt;“They need to understand that the Campus’ Autonomy is not used for that kind of activity,” said the Minister.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In relation to the statement of the minister, some confidential sources said that the minister should not say that, and he is the one who needs to understand the real meaning of Campus’ Autonomy.&lt;br /&gt;”we understand the meaning, but in this case if the rector authorizes us to do it, that’s a mistake but as long it is done with an initiative of the students them selves, it doesn’t break any law,” said the confidential source.&lt;br /&gt; As the president of national parliament, Fernando Lasama said on Monday that, even the students are protesting, the national parliament will still maintain its policy to purchase the cars for its members. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-5908410585372587729?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/5908410585372587729/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=5908410585372587729&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/5908410585372587729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/5908410585372587729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/07/students-protesting-again-in-dili.html' title='Students Protesting again in Dili'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-7084517370873770592</id><published>2008-04-27T18:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-27T18:38:40.153-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Erosion...!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663300;"&gt;Erosion is displacement of solids (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Sediment" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sediment"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663300;"&gt;sediment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663300;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Soil" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663300;"&gt;soil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663300;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Rock (geology)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_(geology)"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663300;"&gt;rock&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663300;"&gt; and other particles) usually by the agents of currents such as, wind, water, or ice by downward or down-slope movement in response to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Gravity" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663300;"&gt;gravity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663300;"&gt; or by living organisms (in the case of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Bioerosion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioerosion"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663300;"&gt;bioerosion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663300;"&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SBUqaXJjIkI/AAAAAAAAAEI/yCxvvuFV_CI/s1600-h/Erosion.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194104377620767298" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SBUqaXJjIkI/AAAAAAAAAEI/yCxvvuFV_CI/s320/Erosion.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Erosion is distinguished from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Weathering" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weathering"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;weathering&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;, which is the process of chemical or physical breakdown of the minerals in the rocks, although the two processes may be concurrent.&lt;br /&gt;Erosion is an intrinsic natural process but in many places it is increased by human &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Land use" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_use"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;l&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="Land use" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_use"&gt;an&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="Land use" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_use"&gt;d use&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;. Poor land use practices include &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Deforestation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;deforestation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Overgrazing" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overgrazing"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;overgrazing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;, unmanaged construction activity and road or trail building. Land that is used for the production of agricultural crops generally experiences a significant greater rate of erosion than that of land under natural vegetation. This is particularly true if tillage is used, which reduces vegetation cover on the surface of the soil and disturbs both soil structure and plant roots that would otherwise hold the soil in place. However, improved land use practices can limit erosion, using techniques such as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Terrace (agriculture)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrace_(agriculture)"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;terrace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;-building, conservation tillage practices, and tree planting.&lt;br /&gt;A certain amount of erosion is natural and, in fact, healthy for the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Ecosystem" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;ecosystem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;. For example, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Gravel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravel"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;gravels&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt; continuously move downstream in watercourses. Excessive erosion, however, does cause problems, such as receiving water &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Sediment" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sediment"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;sedimentation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;, ecosystem damage and outright loss of soil.Approximately 40% of the world's agricultural land is seriously degraded.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erosion#cite_note-0#cite_note-0"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;[1]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt; According to the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="UN" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;UN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;, an area of fertile soil the size of Ukraine is lost every year because of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Drought" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;drought&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Deforestation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;deforestation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Climate change" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;climate change&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erosion#cite_note-1#cite_note-1"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;[2]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt; In &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Africa" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Africa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;, if current trends of soil degradation continue, the continent might be able to feed just 25% of its population by 2025, according to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="United Nations University" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_University"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;UNU&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;'s Ghana-based Institute for Natural Resources in Africa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erosion#cite_note-2#cite_note-2"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;[3]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;em&gt;From wikipedia, the free encyclpedia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-7084517370873770592?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/7084517370873770592/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=7084517370873770592&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/7084517370873770592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/7084517370873770592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/04/erosion.html' title='Erosion...!'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SBUqaXJjIkI/AAAAAAAAAEI/yCxvvuFV_CI/s72-c/Erosion.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-5824540544289147701</id><published>2008-04-27T18:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-27T18:26:52.049-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Nuclear Weapon</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;A nuclear weapon is a type of explosive weapon that derives its destructive force from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Nuclear reaction" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reaction"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;nuclear reactions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Nuclear fission" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;fission&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; or a combination of fission and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Nuclear fusion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;fusion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;. As a result, even a nuclear &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Weapon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;weapon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; with a small &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Nuclear weapon yield" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_yield"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;yield&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; is significantly more powerful than the largest conventional &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="Explosives" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosives"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;explosives&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;, and a single weapon is capable of destroying an entire city.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;In the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="History of warfare" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_warfare"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;history of warfare&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;, only two nuclear weapons have been detonated aggressively — both by the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="United States of America" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;United States of America&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;, during the closing days of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="World War II" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;World War II&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;. The first was detonated on the morning of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="August 6" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_6"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;6 August&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="1945" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;1945&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;, when the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;United States&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt; dropped a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Uranium" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;uranium&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt; gun-type device code-named "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Little Boy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;Little Boy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;" on the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Japan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;Japanese&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt; city of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Hiroshima" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;Hiroshima&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;. The second was detonated three days later when the United States dropped a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Plutonium" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;plutonium&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt; implosion-type device code-named "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Fat Man" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Man"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;Fat Man&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;" on the city of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Nagasaki, Nagasaki" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki,_Nagasaki"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;Nagasaki&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;. These &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Bombings" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombings"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;bombings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt; resulted in the immediate deaths of around 120,000&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SBUnBHJjIiI/AAAAAAAAAD4/O8oDntPqHb0/s1600-h/200px-Nagasakibomb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194100645294187042" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SBUnBHJjIiI/AAAAAAAAAD4/O8oDntPqHb0/s320/200px-Nagasakibomb.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; people from injuries sustained from the explosion and acute radiation sickness, and even more deaths over time from long-term effects of radiation. The use of these weapons was and remains controversial. (See &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt; for a full discussion.) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, nuclear weapons have been detonated on over two thousand occasions for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Nuclear testing" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;testing purposes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt; and demonstration purposes. The only countries known to have detonated such weapons are (chronologically) the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;United States&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;, the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Soviet Union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;Soviet Union&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;, the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a title="United Kingdom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;United Kingdom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="France" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;France&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;, the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="People's Republic of China" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;People's Republic of China&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="India" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;India&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Pakistan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;Pakistan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="North Korea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;North Korea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;Various other countries may hold nuclear weapons but have never publicly admitted possession, or their claims to possession have not been verified. For example, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;Israel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt; has modern airborne delivery systems and appears to have an extensive nuclear program with hundreds of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Warhead" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhead"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;warheads&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt; (see &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Israel and weapons of mass destruction" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;Israel and weapons of mass destruction&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;), officially maintains a policy of "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Ambiguity" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguity"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;ambiguity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;" with respect to its actual possession of nuclear weapons. According to some estimates, it possesses as many as 200 nuclear warheads. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Iran" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;Iran&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt; currently stands accused by the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;United States&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt; of attempting to develop nuclear weapons capabilities, though its government states that its &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Nuclear program of Iran" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;acknowledged nuclear activities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;, such as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Uranium enrichment" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_enrichment"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;uranium enrichment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;, are for non-weapons purposes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="South Africa" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;South Africa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt; also secretly developed a small nuclear arsenal, but disassembled it in the early 1990s. (For more information see &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="List of states with nuclear weapons" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;List of states with nuclear weapons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;Apart from their use as weapons, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Nuclear explosive" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_explosive"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;nuclear explosives&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt; have been tested and used for various &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Peaceful nuclear explosions" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful_nuclear_explosions"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;non-military uses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;. Synthetic elements, such as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Einsteinium" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsteinium"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;einsteinium&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Fermium" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermium"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;fermium&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;, created by neutron bombardment of uranium and plutonium during thermonuclear explosions, were discovered in the aftermath of the first hydrogen bomb test.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-5824540544289147701?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/5824540544289147701/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=5824540544289147701&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/5824540544289147701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/5824540544289147701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/04/nuclear-weapon.html' title='Nuclear Weapon'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SBUnBHJjIiI/AAAAAAAAAD4/O8oDntPqHb0/s72-c/200px-Nagasakibomb.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-6764569621613188395</id><published>2008-04-22T21:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-02T22:20:40.988-07:00</updated><title type='text'>AZTEC</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330000;"&gt;Aztec is a term used to refer to certain ethnic groups of central &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a title="Mexico" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330000;"&gt;Mexico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330000;"&gt;, particularly those groups who spoke the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a title="Nahuatl language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahuatl_language"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330000;"&gt;Nahuatl language&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330000;"&gt; and who achieved political and military dominance over large parts of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a title="Mesoamerica" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerica"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330000;"&gt;Mesoamerica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330000;"&gt; in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the Late post-Classic period in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a title="Mesoamerican chronology" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_chronology"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330000;"&gt;Mesoamerican chronology&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192296252223726098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SA697nJjIhI/AAAAAAAAADw/Uv6h6VdEWmo/s320/300px-MexicanSculptureRememberingTheSignForTenochtitlanFoundation.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Often the term "Aztec" refers exclusively to the people of Tenochtitlan, situated on an island in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Lake Texcoco" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Texcoco"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Lake Texcoco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;, who called themselves Mexica Tenochca or Colhua-Mexica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Sometimes it also includes the inhabitants of Tenochtitlan's two principal allied city-states, the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Acolhua" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acolhua"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Acolhuas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Texcoco (altepetl)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texcoco_(altepetl)"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Texcoco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; and the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Tepanec" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tepanec"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Tepanecs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Tlacopan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlacopan"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Tlacopan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;, who together with the Mexica formed the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Aztec Triple Alliance" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_Triple_Alliance"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Aztec Triple Alliance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; which has also become known as the "Aztec Empire". In other contexts it may refer to all the various &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Altepetl" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altepetl"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;city states&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; and their peoples, who shared large parts of their ethnic history as well as many important cultural traits with the Mexica, Acolhua and Tepanecs, and who like them, also spoke the Nahuatl language. In this meaning it is possible to talk about an Aztec civilization including all the particular cultural patterns common for the Nahuatl speaking peoples of the late postclassic period in Mesoamerica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;From the 13th century the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Valley of Mexico" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_Mexico"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Valley of Mexico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; was the nucleus of Aztec civilization: here the capital of the Aztec Triple Alliance, the city of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Tenochtitlan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenochtitlan"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Tenochtitlan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;, was built upon raised islets in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Lake Texcoco" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Texcoco"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Lake Texcoco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;. The Triple Alliance formed its tributary empire expanding its political hegemony far beyond the Valley of Mexico, conquering other city states throughout Mesoamerica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;At its pinnacle Aztec culture had rich and complex &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Aztec mythology" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_mythology"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;mythological&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Aztec religion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_religion"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;religious&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; traditions, as well as reaching remarkable architectural and artistic accomplishments. A particularly striking element of Aztec culture to many was the practice of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Human sacrifice in Aztec culture" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Aztec_culture"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;human sacrifice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;In 1521, in what is probably the most widely known episode in the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Spanish colonization of the Americas" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_colonization_of_the_Americas"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Spanish colonization of the Americas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Hernán Cortés" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HernÃ¡n_CortÃ©s"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Hernán Cortés&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;, along with a large number of Nahuatl speaking indigenous allies, conquered Tenochtitlan and defeated the Aztec Triple Alliance under the leadership of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Hueyi Tlatoani" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hueyi_Tlatoani"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Hueyi Tlatoani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Moctezuma II" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moctezuma_II"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Moctezuma II&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;; In the series of events often referred to as "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Spanish conquest of Mexico" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Mexico"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;The Fall of the Aztec Empire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;". Subsequently the Spanish founded the new settlement of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Mexico City" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Mexico City&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; on the site of the ruined Aztec capital.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Aztec culture and history is primarily known:&lt;br /&gt;1. From &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Archaeology" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;archaeological&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; evidence as it is found in excavations such as that of the renowned &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Templo Mayor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templo_Mayor"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Templo Mayor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; in Mexico City and many others.&lt;br /&gt;2. From &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Aztec codices" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_codices"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;indigenous bark paper codices&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;3. From eyewitness accounts by Spanish conquistadors such as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Hernán Cortés" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HernÃ¡n_CortÃ©s"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Hernán Cortés&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Bernal Díaz del Castillo" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernal_DÃ&amp;shy;az_del_Castillo"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Bernal Díaz del Castillo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;And especially from 16th and 17th century descriptions of Aztec culture and history written by Spanish clergymen and literate Aztecs in the Spanish or Nahuatl language, such as the famous &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Florentine Codex" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florentine_Codex"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Florentine Codex&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; compiled by the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Franciscan order" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan_order"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Franciscan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; monk &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Bernardino de Sahagún" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardino_de_SahagÃºn"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Bernardino de Sahagún&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt; with the help of indigenous Aztec informants. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="right"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;From; wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-6764569621613188395?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/6764569621613188395/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=6764569621613188395&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/6764569621613188395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/6764569621613188395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/04/aztec.html' title='AZTEC'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SA697nJjIhI/AAAAAAAAADw/Uv6h6VdEWmo/s72-c/300px-MexicanSculptureRememberingTheSignForTenochtitlanFoundation.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-8068682818817851804</id><published>2008-04-17T18:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T19:01:32.801-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Compensation for IDPs to Return Home</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Is Half Way to Go…!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663300;"&gt;Dili – Ministry of solidarity has visited some main IDPs camps around Dili and all over the country to identify the people who are eligible to receive compensation from the government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;The government of Timor Leste through Ministry of Solidarity has been doing efforts to overcome IDPs problems by visiting IDPs camps throughout the country in order to let the displaced people to fill up the form of compensation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The forms have been distributed to all IDPs camps a few months ago and the function of the form is to list down the lost materials, houses and everything that have been destroyed or burnt down during the 2006 crisis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The process has been going on and it is now getting closer to its end. This is a positive indication for the government to easily overcome the problem of displaced people to return home. It is also expected that the repatriation program will be concluded in June this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, there are some families in some IDPs camps have returned home after receiving the compensation, and it will continuously be given to all displaced people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Ministry of Solidarity will also provide the transportation to take the displaced people to their destinations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some people at Obrigado Barracks IDPs camp have been registered and they are ready to return home whenever the compensation is given.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We just want to go home now, because we have been here for two years and we don’t want to stay here for another year,” said Natersia Ximenes, a student at National University. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-8068682818817851804?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/8068682818817851804/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=8068682818817851804&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/8068682818817851804'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/8068682818817851804'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/04/compensation-for-idps-to-return-home.html' title='The Compensation for IDPs to Return Home'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-7469081347382669555</id><published>2008-03-26T19:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-27T23:34:53.052-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hunger at Camp</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;“Mom, I’m hungry,” said Juanito, a 5-year-old boy with sweat all over his body because he hadn’t eaten anything since morning until evening. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993300;"&gt;I heard the words when I was sitting inside my tent, the voice came from a tent behind my tent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we heard these words, it’s just a simple word, everyone can say it. But in this case, it is not as simple as we thought, because it is true that some families inside the camp now lack food, due to the reduction of food implemented on February last month and according to the program, the food distribution ends this month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We can’t bear anymore, my kid is always crying and I don’t know what to do,” said Olandina with tears on her eyes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, that’s the question. What can she do? And what can we do? Most importantly, what will the government do?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luckily, we, the refugees inside the camp, still have a feeling of solidarity and we share what can give just to help the little family survive. But, what if we are running out of food as well?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, some of us are lucky, because we have got jobs to sustain our life, but how about that little family, will they be able to survive?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think they will survive if the government can manage to realize their plan to give compensation so that this family can use the money to do something in order to sustain their life. And I guess it is not only one family, but also probably many families because we have too many IDPs camps all over Dili.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;By: Sarmento ‘Ze-Xoroth’ Wargas.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-7469081347382669555?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/7469081347382669555/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=7469081347382669555&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/7469081347382669555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/7469081347382669555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/03/hunger-at-camp.html' title='Hunger at Camp'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-7739653635045901941</id><published>2008-03-24T21:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-24T22:18:00.177-07:00</updated><title type='text'>IDPs Repatriation. When will it be done?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R-iEcHn1noI/AAAAAAAAADk/3YRDRWhf9sk/s1600-h/Refugiados+288.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181536989907099266" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R-iEcHn1noI/AAAAAAAAADk/3YRDRWhf9sk/s320/Refugiados%2B288.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Dili – &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;We realize that the current government is now facing too many problems but at least they have to keep an eye on the displaced people who are recently staying with no certainty whether to return home or to stay permanently in the camps.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s been a few months since the government’s representatives visited the camps in order to socialize the repatriation process to the people. They promised to give some compensation before the displaced people return to their previous places, especially for those whose house were totally burnt down and the rests will be resolved. There is an issue that each family will get $4500, but the problem is that, most of displaced people are students who had no house before and they used to rent houses around Dili.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Yes, we want to go home, but will the government give us some money? Because they say that they will give priority to those who have houses, how about us, we have the same rights, we are IDPs even we had no house before but we spent our money to rent house,” said João Belmonte, a student.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In respond to this problem, the government said that they will certainly solve it but it may take time because the government will have to resolve the ones whose houses were burnt down.&lt;br /&gt;"We have planned everything and the first compensation will be given to the people who had houses before, but we need to check and make sure that houses are theirs, because we don't want to create new problems in the future," said a representative of Ministry of Solidarity in a press conference at Obrigado Barracks IDPs camp on February 5th. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Actually, we want to go home now but just because we are waiting for the government to give us money, no matter how much they give us,” said Olderico Garcia, a refugee at Obrigado Barracks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even they are thinking of going home, but their main concern is the security outside the camps, they think that there are some areas within Dili still reject the return of displaced people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Salvador Maia, a refugee says, “If the case of Salsinha will be successfully resolved that means, no reason for us to be afraid to go home, but as long as he and his men are still out there, it’s a thing that needs to be considered as a threat for stability.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By: Sarmento ‘Ze-Xoroth’ Wargas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-7739653635045901941?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/7739653635045901941/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=7739653635045901941&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/7739653635045901941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/7739653635045901941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/03/dili-we-realize-that-current-government.html' title='IDPs Repatriation. When will it be done?'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R-iEcHn1noI/AAAAAAAAADk/3YRDRWhf9sk/s72-c/Refugiados%2B288.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-1933794932423834725</id><published>2008-03-13T18:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-10T23:25:01.065-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Horta recognizes the man who shot him...!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R9nRl6AlUbI/AAAAAAAAADU/WdKok1Q5xag/s1600-h/Arsenio+HOrta.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177399695796162994" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R9nRl6AlUbI/AAAAAAAAADU/WdKok1Q5xag/s200/Arsenio+HOrta.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;The president of Timor Leste, Jose Ramos Horta affirms that he was shot by Marcelo Caetano, one of the rebel soldiers who had been fired from the army in 2006.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arsénio Ramos Horta, brother of the president, affirms that the president recognized the person who shot him, whom he knows well upheld by at his home when Caetano was shot during a wave of violence in 2006, reported today the Australian newspaper "The Age".&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R9nSt6AlUcI/AAAAAAAAADc/KHN1EBIZrXA/s1600-h/Ramos.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177400932746744258" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R9nSt6AlUcI/AAAAAAAAADc/KHN1EBIZrXA/s200/Ramos.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The president recognizes him. That man has to be brought to justice,” Arsenio said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chief of state got three shots, two on his shoulder and one on the stomach, on an attack carried out by loyal renegade soldiers under the command of Alfredo Reinado, who was shot dead at the scene.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The article is taken from &lt;a href="http://www.timorlestenacao.blogspot.com/"&gt;www.timorlestenacao.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-1933794932423834725?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/1933794932423834725/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=1933794932423834725&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/1933794932423834725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/1933794932423834725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/03/horta-recognizes-man-who-shot-him.html' title='Horta recognizes the man who shot him...!'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R9nRl6AlUbI/AAAAAAAAADU/WdKok1Q5xag/s72-c/Arsenio+HOrta.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-1489196171718605957</id><published>2008-03-10T22:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-13T00:04:39.734-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Deadline is Ignored...!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R9eCnqAlUYI/AAAAAAAAAC8/YZF6pbUqIfs/s1600-h/Salsinha+641A.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176749914488918402" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R9eCnqAlUYI/AAAAAAAAAC8/YZF6pbUqIfs/s320/Salsinha%2B641A.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Salsinha did not come to surrender&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;What will the joint-operation do…?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Commander of F-FDTL, Brigadier General Taur Matan Ruak had given a deadline to Salsinha and his members to come to surrender them selves to the Joint-Operation Command (F-FDTL and PNTL) on Friday (7/3) which is then prolonged till Monday (10/3) but it seems all in vain, because Salsinha and his men did not turn up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A long negotiation has been done between the government and the petitioners in order to resolve the unsolved problem of petitioners as a step toward peace and stability for Timor Leste.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Salsinha is also considered as the key option to end the crisis because if he wanted to cooperate then Timor Leste would be able to identify who and what the root problems are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We hope that Salsinha and his colleagues will come to surrender. We have this hope because they have been lost for two years, all Timorese have lost them. I think, there is no more time for us to lose, the most important is to behave in better way for the future,” said Taur Matan Ruak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taur also uttered that the joint-operation has identified the hiding place of Salsinha and also the people who support him during this time by giving them food.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, what is our next step…? Will we use force if they keep on staying in the bushes? How does it affect our stability?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please wait for the next FOLLOW UP…!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-1489196171718605957?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/1489196171718605957/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=1489196171718605957&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/1489196171718605957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/1489196171718605957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/03/deadline-is-ignored.html' title='The Deadline is Ignored...!!!!'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R9eCnqAlUYI/AAAAAAAAAC8/YZF6pbUqIfs/s72-c/Salsinha%2B641A.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-1162290738672855165</id><published>2008-03-10T01:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-10T01:10:24.912-07:00</updated><title type='text'>ICFJ's Real Match...!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R9TsKqAlUXI/AAAAAAAAAC0/QUvDZqUTVTQ/s1600-h/DSCN3984.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176021539575124338" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R9TsKqAlUXI/AAAAAAAAAC0/QUvDZqUTVTQ/s320/DSCN3984.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;Saturday, March 8, 2008, ICFJ’s football team was once more defeated by World Vision Team with 5-3 of the total goals scored.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the first half of the match, ICFJ players under the command of Gil Guterres as coach, had tried hard no to lose their stamina, but unfortunately the opponent was able to finish the first half by scoring four goals and that had made ICFJ’s players frustrated because they couldn’t score even a goal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After taking a bit of rest, they came back into the field with different positions and that looked good for the second half because they could finally scored a goal from its striker, David Monteiro at the first minutes of second half, 4-1 to the favor of World Vision team.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it didn’t last long; the World Vision team was able to add another goal to 5-1. The second goal of ICFJ was scored by Sarmento Wargas, the recent top scorer of ICFJ, from that moment; ICFJ seemed to have more strength, the players of ICFJ stroke even stronger and once again David Monteiro scored his second goal of the match and minimized the distance to 5-3. At the last 20 minutes of the game, again with the perfect assist from Wargas that was almost made Monteiro to make a hat-trick of the game, if Monteiro shot the ball well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ICFJ was probably not so lucky because at the end part of the game, ICFJ was given a penalty but unfortunately Orlando, who was the executor, failed to score. And finally ICFJ had to give up with 5-3 to the favor of World Vision Team.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ICFJ is now preparing for the next match against the team of PLAN International…! Hope we win this time…, Bravo ICFJ…!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We know that we can do it…!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-1162290738672855165?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/1162290738672855165/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=1162290738672855165&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/1162290738672855165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/1162290738672855165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/03/icfjs-real-match_10.html' title='ICFJ&apos;s Real Match...!'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R9TsKqAlUXI/AAAAAAAAAC0/QUvDZqUTVTQ/s72-c/DSCN3984.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-7480809738395600457</id><published>2008-02-25T21:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-28T22:28:54.070-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Waiting</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R8OhGbqCYeI/AAAAAAAAABk/eh6fJNXvOXQ/s1600-h/Waiting.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171153929026822626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R8OhGbqCYeI/AAAAAAAAABk/eh6fJNXvOXQ/s320/Waiting.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;It’s such as boring activity&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever felt any boring activity in your life? What is it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I guess I got the answer for you. And the answer is “Waiting”. It is really boring, isn’t it? It’s sometimes unconsidered when you’re expecting someone but that someone doesn’t show up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-7480809738395600457?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/7480809738395600457/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=7480809738395600457&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/7480809738395600457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/7480809738395600457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/02/waiting.html' title='Waiting'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R8OhGbqCYeI/AAAAAAAAABk/eh6fJNXvOXQ/s72-c/Waiting.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-6762910245939002003</id><published>2008-02-19T20:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-19T20:51:31.548-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"IT'S MY BLOG": The impact of Alfredo Reinado's death on IDPs' repatriation</title><content type='html'>www.icfj.org&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-6762910245939002003?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/02/impact-of-alfredo-reinados-death-on_13.html#links' title='&quot;IT&apos;S MY BLOG&quot;: The impact of Alfredo Reinado&apos;s death on IDPs&apos; 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He lived in a poor but happy family. His parents are still alive. Together they moved to Lospalos city because his father got a job there. His father was once a civil servant in Indonesian time but stopped when Timor Leste got its independence in 1999, while his mother is a housewife. He’s got a sister who has got married and is recently living in Kupang (West Timor).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That happy family was ruined after his father was married to a lady from another village. All happiness he got during his childhood disappeared without traces. He was nine years old when it happened. Everything got worst when his mother decided to live separately without divorce with his husband, because his mother couldn’t bear with all disputes between them. The boy and his sister followed their mother. They moved to another place but still in the same town.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Years have gone since then, and everything either good or bad have gone as time passed. He only met his father for a few times and now his father has got more kids. He never knew what it was to be alone until he grew older and when he saw his mother sat with tears for many times. Sometimes it makes him cry if he remembers his happy childhood when the family was still complete.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the war broke up in 1999, he and his little family fled to Kupang as refugees (West Timor) where his sister got married to an Indonesian army with a Timorese origin. They stayed there for two and a half years. There he continued his abandoned study until the 2nd grade of senior high school then they decided to return to their homeland in January 2002.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They hoped that when they returned everything had changed. But it seemed like the god of fortune has never been with them. Disputes began when they met his father’s family again. Conflict is almost being a part of their life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A month after their returning, the boy registered his name in a high school in Lospalos until he graduated and continued his study at the national university in Dili. During his study in Dili he faced many financial problems because his mother couldn’t afford to pay for it. He had to make his own luck. He tried to find a job to sustain his life and to pay the fees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He tried different kinds of work; he started working as a freelance interpreter, tour guide, English teacher in a study club, working for an audiovisual center and private translation service. It kept on moving until the crisis emerged in Timor Leste and he had to live his life as a refugee for the second time. When the crisis emerged he worked as an interpreter for New Zealand army but then he quit, and recently he works for an international media center.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has been 14 years since the family broke up. Since then, he kept thinking about his father and one thing that makes me sure that this boy still loves his father is that… An old photograph of his father in his wallet..!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I still miss my father, I never hate him. I want him to be back with me and my mom,” he said. “I want to hug you Daddy, I love you forever.” It is the time when tears are rolling down on his cheeks..!! He is crying. But for whom does he cry? For his mother, his father or for himself? I don’t know, you decide…!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-5567985721035937384?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/5567985721035937384/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=5567985721035937384&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/5567985721035937384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/5567985721035937384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/02/who-is-it.html' title='Who is it...?'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-7511008006380167622</id><published>2008-02-13T18:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-13T00:09:24.197-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The impact of Alfredo Reinado's death on IDPs' repatriation</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R9jSqqAlUaI/AAAAAAAAADM/DLu4w2IOVtg/s1600-h/Refugiados+288.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177119401935458722" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R9jSqqAlUaI/AAAAAAAAADM/DLu4w2IOVtg/s200/Refugiados%2B288.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R9jNBqAlUZI/AAAAAAAAADE/PZihTIF0B6w/s1600-h/Reinado+GPlano.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177113200002683282" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R9jNBqAlUZI/AAAAAAAAADE/PZihTIF0B6w/s200/Reinado%2BGPlano.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Dili&lt;/span&gt; - The death of Alfredo Reinado has brought an impact to the life of most Timorese people, to his families, friends and relatives, but most importantly its impact on the life of IDPs around Dili.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday morning, Feb 11 (06.15 am), Timor Leste was shocked by a tragic incident carried out by Alfredo Reinado and his men at the residence of President Ramos Horta in Meti-Aut that left the president injured, while Alfredo and one of his men died at the scene.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not only the supporters of Alfredo feel sorry for him but also people in IPDs camps around Dili.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dislocated people are concerned and aware of the future security situation after Reinado’s death. They are aware because, the incident may affect the repatriation process that has been set by government. Another reason is related to security issue, they are worried because it may cause another problem. Why? Because previously, when the ISF (International Stabilization Forces) led by Australia attacked Reinado along with his men in Same due to the warrant to capture him, at the same time, the people in IDPs camps became the target of Alfredo Reinado’s supporters in Dili. His supporters threw stones into IDPs camps, blazing up tires on the streets and many kinds of violent activities undertaken by them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, the government has planned to repatriate all dislocated people to their homes, but the incident has ruined the will of dislocated people to go home, because they feel much safer to stay under the tents then to stay together with people that might be angry or frustrated.&lt;br /&gt;Now what? Alfredo Reinado was shot dead. Will more violence happen? Or more killings, shootings and gang fights? So, how is our repatriation?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a doubt in the hearts of most dislocated people recently, and we hope the government to take a serious care of the issue and to find an appropriate solution for the problem…!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-7511008006380167622?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/7511008006380167622/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=7511008006380167622&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/7511008006380167622'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/7511008006380167622'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/02/impact-of-alfredo-reinados-death-on_13.html' title='The impact of Alfredo Reinado&apos;s death on IDPs&apos; repatriation'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R9jSqqAlUaI/AAAAAAAAADM/DLu4w2IOVtg/s72-c/Refugiados%2B288.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-4257754736211782833</id><published>2008-02-04T21:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-28T22:31:52.818-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Day of Ashes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R6gaRoy6VWI/AAAAAAAAAAk/rfdVdlv4-QM/s1600-h/Jesus+Christ.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163405863091328354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R6gaRoy6VWI/AAAAAAAAAAk/rfdVdlv4-QM/s400/Jesus+Christ.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wednesday, February 6, 2008 is the day for all Christians around the world to celebrate a sacral day called “The day of Ashes.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;It’s a significant day to build up the spirit of Christianity that has been so weak recently. The “Ash” is given as symbol of faith and to remind us on our own nature as human beings, and also as symbol of unity, our unity with the world, our friends, family and ourselves. It is reflection day for us to recognize ourselves because “We are made of soil and will be back to soil.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has been a church tradition to be celebrated every year before the Easter or the first of 40 days before the Easter. In the ceremony, we’ll be given a mark on our forehead to make us think about our sins and to confess in the front of god.&lt;br /&gt;It is also considered as a preparation day for our souls to be purified and to welcome the Christ as Our Lord on the Easter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-4257754736211782833?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/4257754736211782833/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=4257754736211782833&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/4257754736211782833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/4257754736211782833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/02/day-of-ashes.html' title='The Day of Ashes'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/R6gaRoy6VWI/AAAAAAAAAAk/rfdVdlv4-QM/s72-c/Jesus+Christ.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-1988559381361232926</id><published>2008-01-30T21:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-30T21:29:32.605-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Food Distribution to IDPs is Scaled Down</title><content type='html'>Dili – &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The United Nations has announced to scale down food distribution to IDPs camps in Timor Leste. The reduction of food has been planned since last year and it will be implemented next month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The program will be implemented on February 4th – March 2008. The reason to cut off the ration into half of previous amount is based on a study or evaluation made by a team from WFP in collaboration with the government of Timor Leste. The evaluation stated that not only the dislocated people are lack of food but also the people outside the camps suffer the same. Another reason is to minimize dependency on food.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joan Fleuren, Coordinator of WFP said, “We don’t want to make the people depending on food. Our mandate is to help the people to be able to help themselves.”&lt;br /&gt;Food distribution is scaled down, but other aids will still be given to IDPs to help them sustaining their life.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-1988559381361232926?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/1988559381361232926/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=1988559381361232926&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/1988559381361232926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/1988559381361232926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/01/food-distribution-to-idps-is-scaled.html' title='Food Distribution to IDPs is Scaled Down'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-8560700893494016496</id><published>2008-01-29T21:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-29T22:05:20.907-08:00</updated><title type='text'>IDPs and the rain...!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Oh rain… it’s raining again,”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; said a man under a tent when the rain is pouring down and makes the ground wet. All the people in the camp are busy digging the drainage for the water to flow properly just to prevent their tents from flood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s the same view every time when the rain comes, it’s muddy everywhere, it makes us bored to go outside the tent. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Can I say it is a right place for us to stay? The answer might be ‘Yes’ or might be ‘Not’. We may say ‘Yes’ because it’s safer or secure to stay together in the camp and because we don’t have any place to stay outside the camp, on contrary, we may say ‘No’ because it is noisy everywhere, you can’t hardly sleep at night time because of the voices, it keeps you awake all the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I‘ve got no where to run now, so I have to live my life until the time changes everything. So do you have an idea, where do we have to go…? Please &lt;strong&gt;don't close your eyes..! &lt;/strong&gt;Because I am sure that you can see us here every time you drive by and you pretend that everthing is allright. &lt;strong&gt;It's a truth that I would like you to know and feel...!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-8560700893494016496?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/8560700893494016496/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=8560700893494016496&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/8560700893494016496'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/8560700893494016496'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/01/idps-and-rain.html' title='IDPs and the rain...!!!'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-2631719874804663662</id><published>2008-01-23T19:14:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-23T19:15:17.473-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"Thoughts in Me..." (English Version)</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The heat of that sunny day seems like not having any mercy to burn the skin of a little boy who is playing nearby his parents are also trying to find shade to protect them from the inevitable heat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tents of different colors form disorder lines, children are playing, some kids compete to take a bath under the water pipes, some are crying for food, some are laughing, and some are crying because their toys are taken away by older kids. Everything looks like a sight, a scene that you have to see every second, every minute, every hour and every day, and we don’t know exactly when it will end. The kids are always enjoying their world the way they think and feel, and with all the joy they have. I guess it’s such great and amazing thing if we could enter the world they feel right now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But there is always be something in my heart, and it is a question, a question that needs to be answered with our hearts, and the questions are, why do these innocent children have to live in the place where they are not supposed to be? Why do they have to be the victims of our selfishness? I realize that it is hard to answer those questions immediately, because basically a question needs to be considered in our mind before we can answer it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s quite different when we look at the older people; they always sit quietly as if they are thinking of something. Do they think the same way I do? Ah… No, it is impossible because we have different thoughts and we have our own way of thinking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The conditions of most Internal Displaced People’s (IDPs) Camps are not good places to stay. In terms of deficiencies they face, such as water, which is the most important factor to be considered, food, clothes, house (They call the tents as their homes because they have stayed there for one and a half years), medicines and other aids that have been distributed by local NGOs and International Agencies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do they have to stay there for an uncertain time? I have no idea when they will leave the place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Ami seidauk hatene lolos wainhira mak ami bele fila,” said a lady in Tetum (means: “We don’t know when will we go back”) while hugging her 5-month-old boy that had to be born within the camp because of the unsafe situation outside the camp.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s a complicated phenomenon to look at and to think about, and I am pretty sure that none of them wants to live in a place like that…!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-2631719874804663662?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/2631719874804663662/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=2631719874804663662&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/2631719874804663662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/2631719874804663662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/01/thoughts-in-me-english-version.html' title='&quot;Thoughts in Me...&quot; (English Version)'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-2924588286157121662</id><published>2008-01-21T23:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-22T00:00:50.262-08:00</updated><title type='text'>'Thoughts in Me...!'</title><content type='html'>Sinar mentari seakan tak memberi ampun menyengat kulit seorang anak kecil yang sedang bermain dekat orang tuanya yang juga sedang berusaha mencari tempat untuk berteduh dari teriknya matahari di siang itu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Warna-warni tenda bercampur baur membentuk barisan yang yang tak teratur, anak-anak berkeliaran, ada yang berebutan air untuk mandi, ada yang menangis minta makan, ada yang tertawa dana ada juga yang sedang menangis karena mainannya dirampas. Semua hal itu terlihat bagaikan hamparan pemandangan yang harus kita lihat setiap saat, setiap menit, setiap jam, setiap hari dan entah sampai kapan. Anak-anak ini terlihat benar-benar menikmai dunia mereka dengan cara mereka sendiri, dengan segala kepolosan yang mereka miliki dan mungkin akan sangat mengasyikan jikalau kita bisa masuk kedalam dunia yang mereka rasakan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tetapi selalu saja ada hal yang mengganjal dalam hatiku, suatu pertanyaan yang seharusnya kita jawab dengan nurani kita, pertanyaannya adalah, mengapa raga-raga yang polos dan tak berdosa itu haru tinggal di tempat yang semestinya tidak mereka tempati? Mengapa mereka harus menjadi korban dari keegoisan kita? Sulit memang untuk menjawab pertanyaan itu secara langsung, karena pada dasarnya setiap jawaban dari sebuah pertanyaan harus dipertimbangkan secara matang.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kondisi di tempat-tempat pengungsian di setiap sudut kota Dili memang tidak bisa dikatakan layak untuk di tinggali. Apalagi dengan banyak sekali kekurangan yang ada seperti, air bersih yang menjadi faktor utama yang harus dipedulikan, makanan, pakaian, rumah (tenda-tenda yang kini sudah mereka anggap rumah sendiri karena saking lamanya mereka berada di pengungsian), obat-obatan dan bantuan lainnya yang selama ini disalurkan dari berbagai NGO lokal maupun Internasional. Akankah mereka (para pengungsi) harus terus disana untuk waktu yang belum pasti?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Ami seidauk hatene lolos wainhira mak ami bele fila,” kata seorang wanita dalam bahasa Tetum (artinya: Kami belum tahu pasti kapan kami bisa pulang) sambil menggendong anaknya yang baru berusia 5 bulan yang terpaksa dilahirkan di kamp pengungsian karena keamanan di luar kamp yang kurang mendukung.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Berbeda dengan anak-anak, orang-orang dewasa selalu termenung entah apa yang mereka pikirkan, apakah mereka sedang memikirkan apa yang sedang aku pikirkan? Ah… itu tidak mungkin sebab kita tidak akan memiliki pikiran yang sama antara satu sama lain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adalah suatu fenomena kehidupan yang rumit untuk disimak dan aku sangat yakin bahwa tidak seorang pun dari mereka yang ingin tetap tinggal di tempat seperti itu.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-2924588286157121662?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/2924588286157121662/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=2924588286157121662&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/2924588286157121662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/2924588286157121662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/01/thoughts-in-me_21.html' title='&apos;Thoughts in Me...!&apos;'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-9063866632270408392</id><published>2008-01-21T23:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-21T23:02:00.751-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Dame ne'e mehi ne'ebe furak...!</title><content type='html'>Nudar refugiadu ida iha kampu deslokadu nia laran, halo hau laran triste tanba durante tinan rua nia laran sempre iha obstaklu oi-oin  mak hau hasoru, mesmu konflitu internal no mos eksternal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Konflitu hirak ne’ebe mosu iha ami nia leet fo impaktu psikolojikamente. Konflitu ne’e mosu ho tipu oi-oin, liu-liu konflitu ne’ebe mosu tan deit diferensia ideolojia ka partidu. Durante eleisaun Presidensial no Parlamentu iha tinan kotuk, hamosu problema balu entre deslokadu sira. Maske ida ne’e la’os problema ne’ebe grave, maibe ninia impaktu boot tebes. Dala ruma ema bele odi malu tanba diferensia partidu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kuandu ita refleta didiak tuir lolos iha grupu ka individual ruma ne’ebe aproveita situasaun ne’e hodi harahun unidade ne’ebe iha tiha ona durante hela iha kampu deslokadu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ho reflesaun ida ne’e, iha loron 19 Janeiru 2008, deslokadu sira iha Obrigado Barracks hamosu inisiativa ida atu harii fila fali unidade ne’ebe mak naksobu tiha ona. Programa ne’e konsege realize duni liu hosi ajudus balu hosi UNMIT, Igreja no mos kontribuisaun hosi deslokadu sira rasik.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iha Sabadu, 19 Janeiru 2008, programa ne’e hahu ho misa ne’ebe dirije hosi Padre Antonio hosi Diocese Dili no kontinua ho konsertu muzikal ne’ebe hala’o Grupu Banda Diocese no mos grupu banda kiik ida hosi deslokadu sira. Seremonia ne’e remata ho susesu. Kontinuasaun hosi programa ne’e mak festa kalan hod hakotu eventu ne’e.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ohin loron deslokadu sira moris ho kalma no laiha tan ema ida ne’ebe ameasa ka koalia liafuan ne’ebe hakanek ema nia fuan. Deslokadu barak mak espera katak situasaun ne’ebe kontroladu hanesan ne’e bele kontinua to’o wainhira governu desidi atu ami sai hosi fatin ne’e. Ita Hein….!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-9063866632270408392?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/9063866632270408392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=9063866632270408392&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/9063866632270408392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/9063866632270408392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/01/dame-nee-mehi-neebe-furak.html' title='Dame ne&apos;e mehi ne&apos;ebe furak...!'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-6388434578277285267</id><published>2008-01-21T22:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-21T22:29:00.249-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Violensia hasoru Media...!</title><content type='html'>Dala barak ona violensia hasoru media no jornalista akontese iha Timor Leste. Violensia hasoru media la akontese iha tempu ukun-an nia laran deit, maibe akontese mos iha tempu luta ba libertasaun nasional nian.&lt;br /&gt;Iha Agostu 1999, tipu violensia oi-oin mak jornalista sira hasoru. Iha 25 Agostu 1999, korespondente hosi Time Magazine, John Stanmeyer ho ninia asistente hetan ataka hosi milisia Aitarak wainhira sira hasai fotografia edifisiu milisia Aitarak nian.&lt;br /&gt;Iha Gleno, Ermera, 26 Marsu 2007, jornalista Timor Post, Carlito Soares,  hetan ataka husi juventude ne’ebe partisipa iha kampanya partidu Fretilin, kuaze ema nain 15.&lt;br /&gt;Ataka ne’e akontese tuku rua lorokraik, wainhira Francisco Guterres ‘Lu-Olo’ hakotu ninia kampanya ba eleisaun presidente nian. Tuir Soares; iha tempu ne’eba nia uja faru modok no kalsa badak militar nian no sa’e hela bisikleta.&lt;br /&gt;Tanba Soares rona informasaun husi ema balu katak polisia sira hapara kareta Lu-Olo nian tanba halai makaas liu wainhira fila husi ninia kampanya atu ba Dili. Hafoin rona ida ne’e Soares direitamente ba iha fatin ne’ebe refere atu hetan informasaun ne’ebe los konaba akontesimentu ne’e. Maibe, iha dalan nia haree kareta Kijang ida, tuir nia hatene katak kareta ne’e Antonio dos Santos (Lima-Lima) nian. Kareta ne’e tula kuaze ema nain 15 ho ninia kondutor naran Celestino. Ema sira ne’e nudar seguransa Fretilin ho razaun katak iha tempu ne’eba sira hotu-hotu uja kamizola Fretilin nian tanba loron kampanya ne’e.&lt;br /&gt;Iha tempu ne’eba militantes Fretilin sira ne’e duni hela jovens balu maibe la toman no Soares rona kondutor kareta ne’e hakilar, “Labele halai, imi hein iha ne’e, ami ba rai tiha kareta mak imi haree!”&lt;br /&gt;Tanba rona liafuan ne’e, Soares hapara ninia bisikleta atu bele hare saida mak akontese. Soares haree katak ema sira ne’e komesa hakbesik nia no dehan ba nia atu labele halai. Ema sira ne’e mos husu ninia identidade. Carlito hatán katak nia jornalista ida husi Timor Post. &lt;br /&gt;Hafoin ida ne’e, iha tan grupu seluk ne’ebe hakbesik ba sira no wainhira sira hetan Carlito, sira balun hakilar, “Oho tiha deit, ne’e bosok ten.” Rona tiha nune’e balun komesa baku Carlito no tuda nia.&lt;br /&gt;“Sira komesa baku hau, balun tuda, balu baku to’o hau nia liman karuk naksalak,” Carlito hateten. Maibe Carlito konsege halai ba komandante Dudu nia uma. Hafoin ida ne’e, komandante PNTL distritu Ermera Jacinto Assunçao ho UNPOL nian to’o iha Dudu nia uma atu haree kondisaun Carlito nian. Tanba sofre liman ne’ebe nia hetan, Carlito labele kontinua ninia knaar hanesan bai-bain durante fulan tolu nia laran tanba nia presija halo tratamentu iha Dili. Soares agora fila ona ba Gleno atu hala’o ninia knaar hanesan baibain nudar jornalista.&lt;br /&gt;Iha parte seluk, Antonio dos Santos (Lima lima), hato’o katak nia rasik la hatene se mak baku Soares maibe Lima-lima mos husu ba nia atu aprezenta kazu ne’e ba policía.&lt;br /&gt; “Iha polisia ne’ebe maka bele hatene se mak autor ba kazu ida ne’e,” Lima-lima hateten.&lt;br /&gt;“Hau hanoin katak ida ne’e iha motivu politika oitoan tanba momentu ne’e iha kampanha partidu Fretilin no ema sira ne’e uja faru Fretilin nian,” Soares hateten.&lt;br /&gt;Nia mos hatutan katak, nudar ema ne’ebe independenti no la involve iha asaun polítika ruma nia senti laran moras tebes.&lt;br /&gt;Soares mos halo ona relatoriu konba akontesimentu ne’e ba polisia distrital no mos ba prokurador jeral maibe seidauk iha resultadu ne’ebe klaru husi kazu ne’e.&lt;br /&gt;Akontesimentu ne’e la’os fo influensia ba Carlito deit maibe afeita mos ba media lokal iha Ermera.&lt;br /&gt;Pedro Goncalves, diretor Radio Comunidade Café, Ermera, esplika dehan impaktu hosi violensia hasoru media ne’e boot tebes tanba ida ne’e sei impede liberdade media nian iha Timor no sei halo movimentu media iha komunidade nia leet sai klo’ot. Tuir nia, violensia hasoru media akontese ho tipu rua, fízikamente eh mental.&lt;br /&gt;“Violensia hasoru media nia impaktu boot tebes, tanba bele halakon povo nia fiar ba media,” Goncalves hateten.&lt;br /&gt;Goncalves hatutan tan katak, dala barak leader balun mos halo violasaun ba jornalista tanba ladun satisfaz ho publikasaun ne’ebe media halo.&lt;br /&gt;“Leader sira cenderung halo violasaun ba jornalista sira wainhira sira hare publikasaun ne’ebe mak ladun halo sira satisfaz. Maibe tuir lolos sira tenke hatene katak media tenke fo sai informasaun diak ka aat tanba ida ne’e mak papel media nian, atu habelar informasaun ba ema hotu,” tenik Goncalves. “Papel media ne’e importante tanba media eduka ema atu komprende valor demokrasia nian.”&lt;br /&gt;Iha 6 Agostu, militantes partidu Fretilin hala’o manifestasaun iha Lospalos relasiona ho desizaun ne’ebe Presidente Republika hasai konaba formasaun governu nian ba Aliansa Maioria Parlamentar (AMP). Iha jornalista hosi Radio Comunidade Lospalos (RCL) balu mak momentu ne’eba halo kobertura ba manifestasaun ne’ebe refere inklui mos Alfredo de Araujo, chefe Radio Comunidade Lospalos.&lt;br /&gt;Maske iha manifestasaun ne’e la iha violensia fizika maibe iha mos pressaun mental ba jornalista sira.&lt;br /&gt; De Araujo hateten, “Laiha violensia fisikamente maibe iha deit intimidasaun ba hau nia jornalista balu wainhira halo kobertura ba manifestasaun ida ne’e iha Lospalos hafoin Presidente da Republika deklara atu fo formasaun governu nian ba AMP, sira dehan katak sira atu sunu RCL no sunu hau nia uma.”&lt;br /&gt;Alfredo koñese militante partidu Fretilin balu ne’ebe involve iha manifestasaun ne’e, hanesan Acasio husi suco Com no mos sefi suco Kuluhun (Lospalos). Ameasa ne’e mos foin akontese primeira vez no RCL la hatene tanba sa mak sira sai alvu hosi ameasa ka intimidasaun.&lt;br /&gt;Maske iha ameasa ka intimidasaun ba jornalista RCL, jornalistas radio ne’e la hapara sira nia atividades.&lt;br /&gt; “Ami hatene katak iha ameasa, intimidasaun maibe ema barak sei presija RCL atu nafatin halo kobertura hanesan baibain,” dehan De Araujo. &lt;br /&gt;            Alfredo hatutan, “Intimidasaun ne’e dalaruma fo impaktu duni ba ami nia kobertura, maibe sei koko bebeik atu hala’o ami nia servisu. Liu-liu ba eleisaun presidensial foin dadauk.”&lt;br /&gt;            Evidensia hirak ne’e hatudu katak violensia hasoru media presija hetan atensaun hosi governu agora no mos komunidade atu bele hatene papel media iha ita nia leet. Vioensia ne’e hotu mos halo membru komunidade lei nain sira laran taridu.&lt;br /&gt;Benevides Barros, advogadu ida hosi Assosiasaun Advogadu Timor Leste (AATL), fo sai katak, violensia hasoru media dala barak liu akontese tanba pressaun hosi lideransa sira no mos komunidadae balu ne’ebe seidauk komprende papel media nian. Tanba pressaun makaas hosi governu ba media, liu-liu ba jornalista sira, halo publikasaun media ladun favorese ba nesesidade publiku.&lt;br /&gt;            Barros hateten,“Jornalista sira ne’ebe tuir lolos buka no fo sai faktus, sei labele atu hasai publikasaun ne’ebe diak, tan deit pressaun ne’ebe mai hosi governu.”&lt;br /&gt;            “Impaktu hosi violensia hasoru media sei afeita serbisu organizasaun media nian liu-liu ba jornalista sira, tanba ida ne’e sei impede sira nia knaar nudar jornalista. Iha mos impaktu ba publiku, katak komunidade sei la hetan informasaun ne’ebe sira presija, tan deit media la fo sai faktus tanba tauk ba pressaun hosi governu.”&lt;br /&gt;            Barros espera katak tenki iha konfiansa no responsabilidade entre governu ho media. Atu prevene media hosi violensia ne’e, dalan ida seluk mak liu hosi lei ida atu bele defini klaru governu nia direitu no mos media nia direitu.&lt;br /&gt;“To’o agora ita sei adopta regulamentu uluk nian, maibe ita sei tenta nafatin atu oinsa bele iha lei media nian iha Timor Leste atu garante liberdade da informasaun no liberdade da imprensa,” tenik Barros.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-6388434578277285267?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/6388434578277285267/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=6388434578277285267&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/6388434578277285267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/6388434578277285267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/01/violensia-hasoru-media.html' title='Violensia hasoru Media...!'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330087899990098396.post-2868133607496316432</id><published>2008-01-21T22:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-21T22:24:58.513-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ita hotu presija...!!</title><content type='html'>Loron 15-17 Janeiru 2008 hanesan loron ne’ebe halo deslokadu sira paniku oituan tanba fornesimentu bee mos ne’ebe paradu durante loron rua.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Akontesimentu ne’e hanesan esperiensia ida ne’ebe halo deslokadu sira hakfodak, tanba moris iha kampu deslokadu, bee mos sai faktor importante tebes ba moris lor-loron nian.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deslokadu balu hanoin katak fornesimentu bee ne’e paradu hosi departamentu ka orgaun kompetente ruma ne’ebe uja meius ida ne’e hanesan dalan ida atu halo deslokadu sira fila ba sira nia hela fatin uluk. Maibe informasasun ne’e la los, realidade hatudu katak bee ne’e paradu tanba kanalizasaun bee nian iha rai okos mak intupidu ho foer ne’ebe halo bee maran derepenti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hodi resolve problema ne’e, responsavel kampu deslokadu nian husu tekniku balu hodi hadia fila fali kanalizasaun ne’e. Tekniku sira to’o iha fatin ho ekipamentu kompletu no konsege hadia fila fali kanalizasaun ne’ebe intupidu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agora deslokadu sira beole hetan fali bee mos hodi aguenta sira nia moris lor-loron nian. Deslokadu sira mos kontente tanba sira nia problema konsege resolve ho diak.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4330087899990098396-2868133607496316432?l=zexoroth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/feeds/2868133607496316432/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4330087899990098396&amp;postID=2868133607496316432&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/2868133607496316432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4330087899990098396/posts/default/2868133607496316432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zexoroth.blogspot.com/2008/01/ita-hotu-presija.html' title='Ita hotu presija...!!'/><author><name>Ze-Xoroth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16099464772642637593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2_hUT_u6qP8/SvEZ3REvBtI/AAAAAAAAAIA/fV97SL6LZ3c/S220/DSCF0897.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
