Fwd (GLW): EAST TIMOR: `PST's views on democracy are different'

[Alan Bradley <abradley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The following article appears in the current issue of Green Left Weekly:

EAST TIMOR: `PST's views on democracy are different'
BY RAMANI DE SILVA

DILI - The Constituent Assembly elected in September had been in place for
less than two weeks when on September 26 a demonstration of around 300
people demanded that its deliberations be opened to the people through
public hearings.

The demonstration, initiated by the students and some non-government
organisations, criticised leaders of the largest party in the assembly,
Fretilin, for their opposition to the public hearing process.

Ana Pessoa, Fretilin's minister for justice, also came under fire, for not
being able to speak Tetum, the language spoken by a majority of the Timorese
people. Portuguese and English are considered to be the languages of the
elite.

< The remainder of this article can be found at
(http://www.greenleft.org.au). >




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