Let them rob the things that individually we have sweated for, it doesn't matter. I appeal to all the guerrillas. I appeal to commander Ruak. The excuse was that the vote for independence was allegedly rigged by the United Nations. Believing their own propaganda, Indonesians could not imagine why nearly 80 percent of East Timor's population wanted freedom, and an end to 23 years of Indonesian atrocities.
Revenge is out.
His economic policies are also fundamental. Freedom of speech and other human rights come with the new territory, he promised. East Timor has long been an impoverished, desolate, agrarian zone even in the best of times. As it is the practice in international banking, the state will protect banking secrecy by law. His battle-hardened guerrillas will also enter the mainstream, he said.