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Wed 03 Mar 2009Nobel laureate refused offer of help from IRA
East Timor’s president, José Ramos Horta, told Gerry Adams it was wrong for the IRA to hurt civilians, writes Kevin Cullenin Boston
JOSÉ RAMOS Horta, the Nobel laureate and president of East Timor, says he rejected an offer of weapons and logistical support from the IRA and the Basque separatist group Eta in the 1980s, fearing it would hurt the Timorese resistance movement, which ultimately won independence from Indonesia.
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