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Djoko Luknanto wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Timor Timur sudah atau hampir lepas dari Ina:-), mungkin ada baiknya
> kita sedikit flashback/kilas balik sejarah Timtim dengan nJenguk-nJenguk
> Mas Ramos Horta punya curiculum vitae yang terdiri dari trilogi:
>
> 1. pengumuman ... the not so noble prize winner,
> 2. pendapat internasional,
> 3. komentar mantan isteri,
>
> mungkin kita dapat pencerahan ... atau pencemaran
> .. it's up to you guys:-)
>
> Sale-sale kate mohon mangap:-)
>
> Howgh!
> -- Djoko Luknanto-Jack la Motta
> Kumpulan artikel: http://www.egroups.com/group/la_Koleksi
>
> #1:
>
> (From the Home pages of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee)
> STATEMENT BY THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE COMMITTEE
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 1996
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta
>
> The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the
> Nobel Peace Prize for 1996, in two equal parts, to
> Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta for
> their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the
> conflict in East Timor.
>
> In 1975 Indonesia took control of East Timor and began
> systematically oppressing the people. In the years that
> followed it has been estimated that one-third of the
> population of East Timor lost their lives due to
> starvation, epidemics, war and terror.
>
> Carlos Belo, bishop of East Timor, has been the foremost
> representative of the people of East Timor. At the risk
> of his own life, he has tried to protect his people from
> infringements by those in power. In his efforts to
> create a just settlement based on his people's right to
> self- determination, he has been a constant spokesman
> for non- violence and dialogue with the Indonesian
> authorities. Ramos-Horta has been the leading
> international spokesman for East Timor's cause since
> 1975. Recently he has made a significant contribution
> through the "reconciliation talks" and by working out a
> peace plan for the region.
>
> In awarding this year's Nobel Peace Prize to Belo and
> Ramos-Horta, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wants to
> honour their sustained and self-sacrificing
> contributions for a small but oppressed people. The
> Nobel Committee hopes that this award will spur efforts
> to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict in East
> Timor based on the people's right to self-
> determination.
>
> The Norwegian Nobel Institute Drammensveien 19, N-0255
> OSLO.
> Tlf: +47 22 44 36 80
> Fax: +47 22 43 01 68.
> http://www.nobel.no/96eng.html
>
> #2:
>
> Abilio Jose Osorio Soares, Governor, Province of East Timor - October 17,
> 1996
>
> José Ramos Horta and his brothers and sisters were born as
> Portuguese descendent who have never felt as Timorese. His younger
> brother, Arsenio Horta, after joining the Fretilin army,
> surrendered and was received by the Indonesian Government and
> appointed as a member of parliament in Dili. But, he never felt at
> home living in Dili, fighting for the people aspirations, rather
> he left East Timor and now lives in Australia. Is a person like
> that a spokesman of the people ? Or did they use East Timor for
> their gain? Is it suitable for people like that to be awarded the
> Nobel Peace Prize ?
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> TIME - October 1996
>
> Ramos-Horta is the more colorful of the laureates, inspiring the
> Indonesian government to accuse him of squandering charitable
> donations intended for the guerrillas on the globe trotting and
> high living. In 1975 Ramos-Horta became “foreign minister” of the
> government formed by the Revolutionary Front for an Independent
> East Timor, or Fretilin. In a battle among four political parties
> following Portugal’s 1974 withdrawal from its colony, Fretilin
> slaughtered members of other groups but won the fight and declared
> an independent nation.
>
> Belo believes Fretilin’s savagery in 1975 has been neither
> forgiven nor forgotten - the groupslaughtered 1,000 people in the
> town of Aileu, filling mass graves with corpses. He also thinks it
> is impossible to predict how East Timorese would vote in a
> referendum. Many, he says, would choose to unite with Indonesia or
> to have Portugal regain control. “We don’t know exactly,” he told
> TIME.
>
> Ordained in 1980, Belo became Apostolic Administrator in 1983, an
> unusual arrangement in which he report directly to Rome to avoid a
> Vatican admission that East Timor is part of Indonesia. His
> official position is that a referendum is the best choice, though
> it may lead to bloodshed, and the next best is for Indonesia to
> treat East Timor as a province with unusual autonomy.
>
> East Timor is an oppressed but also a divided place, which the
> Nobel Committee inadvertently admitted by splitting its award
> between Ramos-Horta and Belo. Meanwhile, a shamed Indonesia
> remains East Timor’s overlord. As an agitated Belo told TIME last
> week. “Who will be able to expel the Indonesian forces from here ?
> Who?”
>
> Dr. Abilio Aranjo, President of Fretilin and Leader of the People of East
> Timorese residing outside Indonesia
>
> I ask myself over and over again, what has Ramos Horta done to
> have received the Nobel Prize ? Nothing. All he has done is simply
> manipulate people. According to the Nobel Committee, Horta has
> been finding ways for a peaceful solution to solve the East Timor
> matter, which is precisely what bothers me the most because in
> reality, he has done the opposite.
>
> What has always been perceived by the international community that
> Horta represents Xanana Gusmao is far from the truth. The fact is,
> Ramos Horta has neither represented the objective nor the struggle
> of Xanana. If he truly represents Xanana’s interest, why didn’t
> they (the Nobel Committee) present the Peace Prize to Xanana
> himself ?
>
> The presentation of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize to Ramos Horta
> ought to be reconsidered. Its rather hilarious, in my opinion,
> that someone who has done virtually nothing, could receive an
> award of such a scale? What has Horta done to find a peaceful
> solution in East Timor ? Nothing.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Margot Coven, Far Eastern Economic Review - October 24, 1996
>
> Ramos Horta, however, suffers from credibility problems even among
> some of his associates in the pro-independence movement. They
> question his lack of experience as a combatant, for instance. He
> has also been accused of mismanaging funds, but dismisses the
> allegations as Indonesian government propaganda.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> “One Hand Clapping”. The Asian Wall Street Journal - October 18-19, 1996
>
> “For sure, the scrutiny that inevitably attaches to any Nobel
> Prize winner will soon satisfy any curiosity about Mr. Ramos
> Horta’s past life and lifestyle. What we may never understand,
> though is just what message the Nobel Committee was trying to
> convey with this award”.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> “Asians Have Reasons to Look Askance at Nobel Peace Prizes”.
> Philip Bowring, International Herald Tribune - October 15, 1996
>
> “Indonesians have reason to be sore at the role played by Portugal
> in promoting East Timor separatism when its won failure as
> colonizer and sudden exit form Timor in 1975 initiated the
> problem”.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> “An Errant Nobel Prize”. Robert L. Barry, Washington Post - October 29,
> 1996
>
> “At best the prize will raise unrealistic expectations; at worst
> it will strike the spark that will lead to violence and bloody
> repression. If the Nobel committee wanted to support a diplomatic
> solution to a fostering problem, it should have awarded the prize
> to Belo alone”.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> #3:
>
> WENDY HOLLAND’S OPENING STATEMENT ON FORMER HUSBAND RAMOS HORTA
>
> The following is the opening statement by Wendy Holland, Ramos Horta’s
> former wife, which was read and distributed to the international press,
> and thereafter to the national and international press in Hotel
> Indonesia, Jakarta, on July 27, 1995.
>
> “For over twenty years Horta has stolen millions of dollars meant
> for aid within Timor. He holds numerous bank accounts around the
> world. He is a traitor and continues to use the Timorese for his
> own goals. In 1974 Horta and I were planning to move to Indonesia
> - we met in a village called Ermera in Timor in 1973. In 1974 we
> were to be married at the home of the Indonesian Consul.
>
> “Horta did not expect the coup in Portugal for another 5 years -
> he had connection with the Indonesian government and planned to
> discuss integration. His contacts were the Indonesian consul, the
> governor of Kupang El Tari, Louis Joaquim and others. Here seemed
> to be little chance of getting rid of the Portuguese without
> outside help.
>
> “Realistically Indonesia was the closest country - after Australia
> rejected Horta. Horta has two plans: - Independence or Integration
> with Indonesia. Horta traveled to Indonesia on a number of
> occasions, I accompanied him once. He approached the government
> for student scholarships for Timorese to study in Indonesia, for
> Timorese receive military training and for Indonesia to install
> him as government of Timor. The Indonesians agreed to the
> scholarships but later changed their minds when Horta discussed
> guerilla warfare to start at the border.
>
> “Horta’s price was too high the Indonesian ceased further
> communication. Horta was devastated, this final rejection was his
> undoing. He was anxiety ridden and threw all his energies into
> mending relationships with the Portuguese.
>
> ”Like others before him, the African experience of revolutionary
> socialism as preached by Frelino and other guerilla movements had
> a profound impact on Horta. If nothing else, it gave him an
> ideological framework within which he could develop his own
> dislike of Portuguese colonialism.
>
> “Apart form his collaboration with the Portuguese and attempted
> one with Indonesia, Horta used me and others to link up with
> communist groups such as China, Russia, Cuba and others. When this
> failed, he wrote to the Australian communist party in Melbourne
> asking for assistance to send him and colleagues overseas for
> guerilla training. His request was ignored. Horta makes for good
> press coverage, he controls some of the Clandestine groups in
> Timor and Indonesia. He arranges demonstrations on demand and he
> played a big role in the Dili massacre. He sacrifices his own
> people for his own goals.
>
> “The media failed to mention that Horta lived in a block of flats
> reserved for the Portuguese elite. It did not mention that he had
> a house boy, a symbol of Portuguese colonialism. His family also
> had several people to cook, clean, wash, look after them, and
> these servants lived in appalling conditions. They failed to
> mention that Horta ate most of his meals at the hotel Turismo. He
> also terrorized the Chinese by refusing to pay for his meals at
> their restaurants. The media did not mention that it was the taxes
> and contributions by Fretilin members that afforded him this
> lifestyle then and now.
>
> In 1974 Horta stabbed a Timorese (member of Apodeti) to death. I
> helped bury the body. The reason he gave that this person
> threatened to expose Horta’s links to Indonesia and the betrayal
> of the Timorese by Horta. It is no overstatement to describe Horta
> as a power broker. He has no respect for the Timorese only for the
> power and fame he acquires in their name and at their expense.
>
> “It is well known inside Timor by close aides of Xanana that he
> was planning to leave Timor. Xanana wanted to join his family in
> Australia. Horta sent letters and tapes to Xanana pleading with
> him to stay. There is evidence of this. Horta was paranoid that if
> Xanana came out, it would mean the end of his lifestyle. Numerous
> activities and phone calls took place prior to Xanana capture.
> Needless to say Horta was not too distressed to hear of Xanana’s
> capture. To this day he is not concerned for the release of Xanana
> and he treats Emilia Gusmao, wife of Xanana, with utmost contempt.
> Emilia has publicly criticized Horta for his exploitation of the
> Timorese and his betrayal of Xanana. Horta claims to have signed
> documents from Xanana giving him control of the resistance. This
> is false. These documents are forged. Members of Xanana’s family
> have confirmed this.
>
> ”Money is being sent into Indonesia not East Timor for education.
> Horta’s goal is to cause destabilization and increase Clandestine
> groups. Horta can be all things to all people. He has the
> arch-pragmatist’s ability to chop and change as occasions demand.
> He is a chameleon. Horta soaks up power like a dry sponge. To
> imagine he would share center stage with fellow Timorese is like
> believing in fairy tales. He uses his colleagues as puppets. He
> has cultivated his friendship with journalists and audiences since
> 1973 doing little of offend them. He is, and has always been, the
> most recognized of the Timorese people.
>
> “Since 1973, when I first met him, he has used his position
> shamelessly, initially as a journalist in Timor and with his
> Portuguese colleagues in Timor, Portugal and the colonies. It was
> never Horta’s intention to share his fame and power with anyone,
> not even Xanana. Even though Ramos Horta has left Fretilin - UDT
> and Fretilin are held to ransom as it is Horta who holds the power
> and the purse strings. Now that Xanana is safely locked away. The
> result is that Ramos Horta’s name and face turns up more than
> anyone else’s in the Timorese community,” Wendy Holland, the
> former Mrs. Horta stated.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> WENDY HOLLAND’S OPENING STATEMENT
> Part II
> (July 27, 1995)
>
> “East Timor, prior to 1975, had no independent body of opinion
> such such as a resident diplomatic corp or a population of foreign
> correspondents to which visiting journalists could turn for
> background briefing or the like. Nor were there any reliable
> statistics available for use by journalists. All that visiting
> journalists could was place their trust in the only political
> source they could get to, Horta - which left the field wide open
> to him. Ramos Horta gives journalists what they want to hear. He
> is usually friendly and accessible and his efforts are rewarded
> with good publicity. They, in turn, ignore the excess privileges
> Ramos Horta enjoys.
>
> “The media continuously fail to mention how Horta could afford a
> jet setting lifestyle, designer clothes, numerous bank accounts
> and luxury holidays - they accept his lies too easily. There are
> many people associated with Horta who know his many faces. Yet
> they are willing to conceal the truth because he is colourful and
> delivers what they want - an on-going source of information, be it
> true or false.
>
> “It almost goes without saying that the control Horta had, and
> still has to some extent, over East Timorese and their political
> parties was because he was one of Fretilin’s full time employees.
> It is easy to see the extent to which he was able to wield his
> power in some way or other, while attempting to keep things in the
> way he wished.
>
> “During the first year after the Portuguese revolution, Ramos
> Horta pictured himself as the founding father of Timorese
> Liberation. One Australian journalist Bill Nicholl quoted ”He
> (Ramos Horta) believed he was the spiritual leader of Timorese
> nationalism and philosopher of Timorese political aspirations.
> Ramos Horta believed his 'Mauberism' was the gift of a God to the
> masses.”
>
> “When asked by the journalist how he felt about being the founding
> father of the philosophy of Timorese Liberation, he replied “I was
> forced to be. I am quite happy”. This same journalist wrote the
> truth about Ramos Horta when he returned to Australia in 1975 he
> was Austracized (?) and treated like a leper for telling the truth
> by the media close to Horta.
>
> “Sukarno gave Ramos Horta the inspiration for a political
> philosophy which could be used to inspire the Timorese masses to
> support Fretilin - Ramos Horta has a habit of plagiarizing others
> philosophies. Sukarno’s was known as Marhaenism, Ramos Horta’s was
> Mauberism. Ramos Horta denies he had ever heard of Marhaenism. He
> has a flair for interpreting and using philosophies. He is a
> skilled propagandist, an opportunist, and dangerous. He will do
> anything to take himself to power - even if it causes instability
> in the Asian region.
>
> “In ‘The Sydney Morning Herald’ in ‘Spectrum’, 10th September
> 1994, Ramos Horta denied emphatically that he never, in any
> circumstances, approached the Indonesians in 1976. I can prove he
> approached them in 1974 and 1975, whilst I was on a trip overseas
> he was planning our removal to Indonesia.
>
> “Sources inside Portugal claim the Portuguese were furious when
> they read my articles and expose on Ramos Horta, revealing some of
> his many hidden bank accounts. After all they were paying a great
> deal to support Ramos Horta and his 'cronies'. They too were
> totally unaware of his deceit - he was hauled over the coals.
>
> “Some of Ramos Horta’s closest friends have now retired quite well
> off on monies meant for the Timorese people, in excess of millions
> of dollars - Abilio Araujo being one. Apart from the Portuguese
> support, huge sums of money have come from aid agencies, donations
> and unsuspecting supporters - all of which went into Ramos Horta’s
> personal accounts and those of his colleagues.
>
> “One of Ramos Horta’s former enemies (an in-law) and a leading
> member of UDT, warned me off Ramos Horta many times in the past.
> Now the person, another opportunist lacking also in financial
> probity, has shaken hands with the devil.
>
> “During the colonial period, Ramos Horta claims he was deported to
> Mozambique. Timorese authorities claim he in fact, avoided
> conscription. The Portuguese sent him there where he trained as a
> journalist and returned after two years (free of conscription) to
> become editor of the government sponsored newspaper “A Voz de
> Timor” (Voice of Timor) to which he devoted himself until the
> revolution. For a so-called ‘deportee’, this was indeed an unusual
> privilege.
>
> “Ramos Horta will tell anyone who is willing to listen that he is
> a one man fighting machine dedicating his life to the liberation
> of his people. He will also tell you he is poor and lives with his
> mother, that he does not own a car or house. He lives off his
> family and friends, male and female. Horta has a crafty
> intelligence. Until his personal financial records were made
> public, he played on the sympathy of his supporters. And continues
> to do so. He played on mine to the tune of hundreds of thousands
> of dollars.
>
> “This highly complex man has an excuse for everything. He has a
> ready answer to explain his seedy past away. He was mixed up in
> every bit of major politicking when he lived in Timor and beyond.
>
> “Since Horta’s constant travel arrangements are usually paid for
> by some organization or another, and he receives a part salary,
> his expenses were reimbursed by the party. One wonders what he
> does with the cast wealth he holds. Horta does not send it into
> East Timor.
>
> “Jill Jolliffe (an Australian journalist based in Portugal) who
> traveled into East Timor was informed by the members of resistance
> that they received no support from the outside, only from the
> locals. Her article appeared in The Melbourne Age this year. Ramos
> Horta’s bank statements indicate that he uses the funds to indulge
> himself. He is a traitor and a murderer,“ the former Mrs. Ramos
> Horta stated.
