[Mitworld] Ramos-Horta on East Timor's Independence

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 9 |  October 16, 2009

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Challenges in Nation Building
September 29, 2009

At times humorous and at times defiant, José Ramos-Horta describes nurturing the 
21st century’s first sovereign state through its formative years.  The journey of East Timor 
from brutal Indonesian rule to fragile self-governance has involved Ramos-Horta in conflict 
and debate from the halls of the U.N. to the smallest villages of this tiny Southeast Asian island.


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/714

Speaker:
José Ramos-Horta
President, East Timor

1996 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate


Event Host:
Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship

"I’m happy to endure criticism from the ultrapatriots of international justice who want to make 
East Timor a guinea pig of international justice. I will not be part of that.  ... Let’s put 
all the past behind us -- look after the victims, the wounded, in their minds, bodies and souls, 
build a country that is deserving of so much sacrifice. Chasing the ghosts of the past 
leads us nowhere."
-José Ramos-Horta

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J. Phillip Thompson
David Thorburn


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