the end and 'success.
I've always heard that Alfred, as the last leader of the rebels, which, having failed to dismiss the previous government, has not laid down their weapons and continued to be a thorn in the side of the new government, which would be virtually the his own party.
With the help of my previous driver (and when I replaced the 'ended up in prison) I was going to arrange a meeting with this Alfredo Reinaldo, because as I say and' always been known for courtesy and culture and my driver could arrange the meeting as a time too militancy in its ranks.
The culture here and 'something easy enough to be held responsible, since the average level of education and' very low, and the courtesy and 'quite common. However, a picnic on the mountains have done it willingly.
Except that I found myself in a time when the president put the papers calls for more vigorous because Alfredo depose their arms and retired to private life, and thus postpones every time this sort of trip.
there to keep the big picture where this is going to include Alfredo. In essence Dili and 'full of refugee camps, which the UN must be called Internally Displaced Persons, namely people and that 'refugee, but the same country, all these multitudes flocked to the city' from the remotest villages, fleeing from burning of houses (those who have read my previous comments may remember what I mean), lack of food and the immense difficulties of finding a job of any kind.
represent the biggest problem of this city, perhaps because the original 100,000 inhabitants, about 20,000 have been added, and live in city parks in tents provided by the UN, and IOM (International Organization for Migration). Then this tent and 'another story, because the IOM aims to buy the $ 250 each, and the day after they have been distributed for sale is located in the city', yet packed at $ 50, much to the joy of those who work hard to IOM weeks looking for money to buy them, and besides abroad see that their beneficiaries sell them, even the sale. Then there are the food distributions, which consist of bags of rice given to each family, and have halved this month to get people to leave the camps, taking the $ 1,000 severance pay of the government and return to their village to settle the home.
Moreover, if the distributions of food and tents are delayed, the UN does not immediately circulated notices out to the street because there are stone-throwing and roadblocks not allowed. Some of my acquaintances have borne the brunt of last week.
In sum, the name of Alfredo stands written on the walls and stands as a champion of the refugees against the government in general and against those who undermine the rights of the weakest. Then a bit in the villages 'most popular, and the support of Alfredo' stamped on them. Other refugees here in Dili say they will not return to the villages because Alfredo and 'still in circulation. Logic elusive, but Oh well '.
Here you frame the current events: I go to get to work, Monday, February 11, and I see the streets deserted as usual. And not meeting children going to school. Arrived in the office, before going up the stairs, I see that out of the shop below the office of people are talking very animatedly. Rose above the office I find a kind ferment of people who talk loudly and others who ask, and many who argue, with Filipinos Filipinos, with Timorese Timorese, and logic would dictate that I interloquissi with the Italians. Except that the only Italian. So I sit and wonder
"What?"
Then, perhaps the only time you notice that I arrived, everyone is silenced and the bigger picture of age comes up and asks me if I know who Alfredo. I reply that I know, and she tells me that it 'was killed.
time I do not even know if there is reason to rejoice or not, a secretary burst into the room and all in one breath says
"Sir, there is a UN warning, they said we should lock ourselves in, the homes of the President and Prime Minister have been attacked. There are riots all over the city. What should we do? "
And I think:" And you think that we should never do, oh idiot? "
But I say:" Chiudiamoci inside. "
09:15
Oh how nice, I just got the real information, that is not UN voices are but information. It seems that Alfredo has died, the President of the Republic has been fired and now is already in Australia in an attempt to save him, and the rebels are pouring into the city Alfredo.
A pretty picture, I think. tranquilizing and relaxing. Just the ideal place to work.
09:51
It 's amazing Australian sites various television networks compete with the BBC in making news more 'accurate: every minute there is' an update.
The beauty and 'I'm more' updated them. Any update for me and that put the 'old of ten or twenty minutes. They are inundated with information.
It seems that everything has happened early this morning. A policeman of my acquaintance was doing jogging around 7 this morning and it 's been close to the president's house, where, through the network has seen the president do exercises in his garden. About ten minutes later he heard a series of shots, it seems that the president's house was attacked, and in this conflict the rebel leader was killed, while the president is seriously injured.
Poor president Ramon Horta. Nobel Prize for peace, we talked, a couple of months ago.
But that 'it is worrying to me and' In the short term there could be a huge series of riots across the country, in 2006 the late Alfredo had brought the country to the brink of civil war. Now we must see how the crowds react to the news. Among
helicopters and sirens there 'peace today. There is a meeting being the seat of the UN Police. Boh.
In the meantime I try to work. We have delivered to the ministry but no one answers the phones. It will all be ambush.
13:20
'm back at work after being home for lunch. On the streets the situation and 'quiet, you see only a sea of \u200b\u200bpeople looking around and talking. Meanwhile at the hotel have no water, phones do not work and gasoline distributors and 'almost over. As said toto ', will also be coincidences, but the same. The BBC says that even now the car of Prime Minister, at the same time attacking the President, and 'was attacked without success, and that this is a failed coup. We're good.
However it seems that the president is not in critical condition.
15:00
If they all go home then, too.
Note reassuring. It's all wonderfully well and there is 'absolutely no reason to fear for my safety'.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
not really have much to add.
phones have begun to function, the water is there and the panic that led to plug all four gas stations in town (yes, four) seems to have calmed down.
Basically everything seems to go well. I'm back in the office, good or bad they all arrived, even the Timorese who yesterday were the first to disappear.
Upon arriving at the hotel, yesterday, I phoned the Italian Embassy that will remember the most ' loyal readers and not 'here but in Indonesia, in Jakarta to be precise (I think 2 or 3 time zones away) to communicate, if they already knew,' I was here, just in case. I pass this
Pas **** who listen with little attention asks me what I need and I tell them that we had already 'felt in August because of my passport which was full of stamps and anyway I am now in Dili, and I wanted to signal my presence in case the situation needs to contact the Italian citizens, whereupon he said:
"A good, please send me an email?" And I
:
"Maybe he heard me, watch Pas **** I'm in Dili, East Timor".
wakes up suddenly.
"Oh for God's sake I tell me tell me things that I take note. But how is the situation? But it 's true that it does not work anymore? How are you calling? You were right to call. It is certain. With thanks and best wishes be careful. "
Last night we were at the hotel, it seems that in the late afternoon, the Prime Minister has called a curfew for 48 hours from 20 to 6 (clearly to avoid crowds that quickly become rebels), and the thing that I think is 'difficult to implement and' that the patrols have orders to shoot all groups of people on the street overnight. As the mainly Western military do not see this thing. What you bring to shoot against defenseless people? Pero 'the measure worked great. Last night is not 'registered no incidents throughout the city.
now seems clear that it 'was a failed coup. Taking advantage of the fact that the President of the parliament was abroad, tried to kill the President and the Prime Minister. About what they might do later, 'a mystery.
I think I'd better organized.
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