Fed: Ramos-Horta pays tribute to 15-year-old hero

AAP General News (Australia)
08-03-2008
Fed: Ramos-Horta pays tribute to 15-year-old hero

East Timorese President JOSE RAMOS-HORTA has paid tribute to a 15-year-old hero ..

who alerted soldiers to Rebel leader ALFREDO REINADO on the day he was shot.

The Nobel Laureate .. who was shot twice outside his Dili home on February 11 .. has
also revealed the assassination attempt was his second scrape with death.

REINADO was shot dead in the February attack, along with another rebel.

In an interview to be aired on ABC on Monday .. Mr RAMOS-HORTA says the hero in this
whole story was a 15-year-old refugee .. who had been staying at the presidential compound
for a year and a half prior to the attack.

Mr RAMOS-HORTA says it was the boy who saw Mr ALFREDO REINADO taking weapons from the guards.

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KEYWORD: TIMOR HORTA (SYDNEY)

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