Xanana Gusmao: "I am not the right person to lead East Timor"

April 24, 2001

Jose Alexander "Kay Rala" Xanana Gusmao has not changed. The 55-year-old leader of the National Resistance Council for an Independent East Timor (CNRT) still likes to smile and is friendly and kind-hearted. Even the way he talks is still the same. When speaking at the Indonesia Next: Emerging from the Crisis seminar in Jakarta last week, Xanana Gusmao, who was born June 20, 1946 in Manatuto, East Timor managed to grab the attention of ...

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