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March 7th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A presidential spokesman announced the news on Tuesday, saying the veteran leader died in a hospital in the capital Dili.
“The nation is mourning the loss of Xavier. He was our party’s first president and our first president of the Republic,” the spokesman said.
Francisco Xavier do Amaral, 74, was also a candidate in the upcoming presidential election in the country, due to be held on March 17.
He declared independence for East Timor after a brief civil war in late 1975.
He was then sworn in as president but had to flee into mountains when Indonesia invaded and occupied the territory 10 days later, declaring it as Indonesia’s 27th province the following year.
Amaral and his colleagues from the Falantil, the military wing of the Fretilin party, fought the Indonesian military until his capture by Indonesian troops in 1979. He was taken to Indonesia’s Bali Island, where he was kept under house arrest.
In 1999, following the UN-sponsored act of self-determination, Indonesia relinquished control of the territory and East Timor became the first new sovereign state of the 21st century on May 20, 2002.
“He was a true politician for the people, who fought for the justice and freedom all of his life. To this end, in this presidential campaign his platform was democracy and the greater rights of all East Timorese,” said former guerilla commander and the Fretilin party’s presidential candidate Francisco “Lu Olo” Guterres.
The March 17 presidential election will be the second since the nation was officially recognized as an independent state in 2002.
East Timor is a tiny half island nation of 15,400 km2, located just over 600 kilometres (370 miles) northwest of Australian City of Darwin.
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