http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080319/twl-timor-unrest-president-australia-dis-696b303.html
DARWIN, Australia (AFP) - East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta
Yahoo News an exercise in faith. Also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Ramos-Horta

Ramos-Horta was airlifted to the Royal Darwin Hospital hours after the assassination attempt and stayed there until March 3, when he was moved to the nearby Darwin Private Hospital.

Outside the hospital, he told reporters: "My message to my people is please forgo violence and hatred with weapons, machetes, with arson -- we only destroy each other and the country."

He said he would stay in Australia for a few more weeks for follow-up treatment but assured East Timorese he would return home soon.

"There are so many thousands of people in Timor -- the bishops, the priests, the nuns, the common people who have prayed for me," he said.

"I thank all of my people. I will be back soon."

The East Timor government has imposed a curfew in Dili since the attack. On that same day, rebels ambushed a convoy carrying Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao, but he escaped unharmed.

Makes me think of this other man, and book by Samantha Power recently published about him: "Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World". Released on February 14, 2008. UN negotiator, who died after a thirty .. years career negotiating violent conflict (biography by Samantha Power).
Though I know today nothing of this latter man, I have the desire to read Samantha Power's biography of him ... for those of us who want to try and understand what is going on.