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Xanana Gusmao is an East Timorese resistance leader, a soldier, and is considered as one of the greatest man in the epic struggle of East Timor. He was captured in 1992 by the Indonesian government and was tried and sentenced to life in prison. Gusmao led the Timorese armed resistance in the mounains of East Timor for two decades before his capture evading tens of thousands of Indonesian soldiers armed with the latest of western weapons. Apart from being a leader in prison, Xanana Gusmao goes down in the history book as the first ever political prisoner to meet the head of a foreign state, namely the Noble laureate Nelson Mandela of South Africa. The meeting took place in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, at the presidential palace -- The "Freedom" Palace.
Camões, or Luís Vas de Camões was a 16^th century Portugues poet. He is also considered as on of the gretest European poet to emerge from the renaisance. His most famouse writing was "Os Lusíadas" (The Lusíads), proses concentrating on the might and the adventures of the Portuguese empire (and her people) which, in Camões' time extended from Portugal all the way to the coast of China.
i. Luís Vas de Camões: Os Lusíadas. 5.^a edição; Biblioteca Ulissea de Autores Portuguese.
ii. Luis Vas de Camões: The Lusiads, a new translation by Landeg White; World's Classic 1997
John Pilger, an Australian, has twice won Britain's Journalist of the Year award. His documentary films have won Academy Awards in Britain and the United States. His film on East Timor, Death of a Nation, directed by David Munro, will soon be released in the United States.
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Rai Diak is the popular term for the period in history of East Timor prior to the Indonesian invasion, 7 December 1975