President Jose Ramos-horta of Timor-Leste
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CNN) -- East Timor President and Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta was shot twice, while Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao escaped unhurt Monday in coordinated attacks blamed on rebel troops, officials said.
Ramos-Horta was shot twice in the back, and one of the bullets tore through his abdomen, Foreign Minister Zacarias da Costa said.
Ramos-Horta was in surgery at an Australian military hospital in Dili and was to be flown to a military hospital in Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory.
on December 26, 1949, in Dili, East Timor.
to stop the oppression of his people.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta has laboured tirelessly for the right to self-determination for the people of East Timor.
Subsequently Ramos-Horta has worked with the United Nations and domestic Timorese groups to develop a peace plan.
Ramos-Horta has earned a number of post-graduate degrees in human rights and international relations.
Jose Ramos-Horta is a 1998 recipient of the State of The World Forum Award.
Ramos-Horta has spent the last 22 years denouncing the illegal invasion and annexation of East Timor, his homeland, by Indonesia and defending the rights of the East Timorese people to self-determination.
Ramos-Horta was exiled to Mozambique in 1970-1971 for his subversive allegations against the Portuguese regime and his active involvement in the development of political awareness in East Timor.
Between 1969 and 1974, Ramos-Horta was a radio and television correspondent.
Ramos-Horta is now the Special Representative of the National Council of Maubere Resistance (CNRM), an umbrella organization of pro-independence activists and movements inside and outside East Timor.
Ramos-Horta was educated in a Catholic mission in the retired village of Soibada, later chosen by the FRETILIN as headquarters after the Indonesian invasion.
After East Timor achieved independence in 2002, Ramos-Horta was appointed as the country's first Foreign Minister.
On 26 June, following the resignation of Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, Ramos-Horta was appointed acting Prime Minister by the President, Xanana Gusmão.
On 11 February 2008, Ramos-Horta was injured when he was shot during an assassination attempt.
Of mestiço ethnicity, Ramos-Horta was born in Dili, capital of East Timor, to a Timorese mother and a Portuguese father who had been exiled to what was then Portuguese Timor by the Salazar dictatorship.
When appointed minister, Ramos-Horta was only 25 years old.
Ramos-Horta was the Permanent Representative of FRETILIN to the UN for the next ten years.
Ramos-Horta was its first Foreign Minister.
Before his appointment as Prime Minister, Ramos-Horta was considered a possible candidate to succeed Kofi Annan as United Nations Secretary-General.
In an interview with Al Jazeera broadcast on 22 February 2007, Ramos-Horta said that he would run for president in the April 2007 election.
In the first round of the election, held on 9 April, Ramos-Horta took second place with 21.
On 11 February 2008, José Ramos-Horta was shot in an assassination attempt.
Ramos-Horta was treated at Dili Australian military base before being transferred to the Royal Darwin Hospital in Australia for further treatment.
Ramos-Horta was released from the Royal Darwin Hospital on 19 March, although he said that he would stay in Australia for physical therapy for "a few more weeks.
Mr Ramos-Horta lived in exile for the duration of the Indonesian occupation, during which time he also served as the Permanent Representative to the UN of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (Fretilin.
In 1996, Mr Ramos-Horta was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with his compatriot, Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo.
Mr Ramos-Horta has been foreign minister since East Timor's independence in 2002.
Jose Ramos-Horta is the president of East Timor, the former Portuguese colony shattered by conflict in 1999.
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CNN) -- East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta has regained consciousness and spoken to family members after emerging from an induced coma following an assassination attempt, the country's deputy prime minister told CNN Thursday.
The 58-year-old Ramos-Horta was flown to the Royal Darwin Hospital in Darwin, Australia, where doctors performed reconstructive surgery to repair the bullet wounds.
Jos Ramos-Horta is certainly one of those.
Jos Ramos-Horta has been the Chairman of the site's Advisory Board since 2000.
On October 11, 1996, Ramos-Horta was in Sydney, playing on the floor with his two-year old niece, when he was called to the phone to hear from a journalist that he had been named co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Ramos-Horta was one of ten children of a Timorese mother and a Portuguese father.
During his years of exile, Ramos-Horta received his Master of Arts from Antioch University, was a Fellow in International Relations at St.
At the award ceremony Chairman Sejersted answered these charges, pointing out that during the civil conflict Ramos-Horta was not even in the country and on his return he tried to reconcile the two parties.
Sejersted emphasized that since the invasion Ramos-Horta had continued his efforts to unite the different East Timorese groups in a single national front.
The Nobel lecture of Ramos-Horta was political from his first words, which were in Portuguese, the language which Indonesia was attempting to eradicate in East Timor.
Jose Ramos-Horta was a co-founder of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (FRETILIN), and a leader in the Timorese movement for independence from Indonesia.
Ramos-Horta was the foremost international spokesman for ending to the war and terror that had plagued the region since Indonesia invaded the former Portuguese protectorate in 1975.
action in the face of the Indonesian Military onslaught that killed one third of the Timorese population.
affairs, becoming the main contact for foreign journalists.
of and freedoms of threatened peoples.
Timor's cause since 1975, the Norwegian Nobel Committee says.
the Indonesian Army and of Indonesian society.
headed by Ramos-Horta is formed on 14 July.
Ramos-Horta has no bitterness towards the Indonesian people.
the court has been criticised as a sham by international observers.
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Ramos-Horta was in stable condition, while Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao escaped unhurt.
Ramos-Horta was in "stable condition" following the shooting and was being operated on in Australian army hospital, said Gusmao and another East Timorese official.
Australian-led troops restored calm following the 2006 turmoil and peaceful elections were held in which Ramos-Horta was elected president.
Ramos-Horta was a fiery and partisan voice for the independence movement.
One of eleven children, José Ramos-Horta was born to a Timorese mother and Portuguese father on December 26, 1949, in Dili, East Timor.
In December 1996, José Ramos-Horta was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his sustained efforts to stop the oppression of his people.
Jose Ramos-Horta is President of the Southeast Asian country of East Timor (Timor-Leste), a position he was elected to in May 2007.
We are shocked and saddened to learn that Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta was shot and seriously injured in his home over the weekend.
My experience with this inspirational leader has been amazing! Jose Ramos-Horta is like an older brother who taught me (aside from my mother) about peace, non-violence and the importance of human rights.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta has backed a war against Saddam Hussein to liberate victimised Iraqi civilians.
Dr Ramos-Horta said Saddam had dragged his people into two wars, had used chemicals weapons on them, killed hundreds of thousands and tortured and oppressed countless others.
The Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta held a slender lead Tuesday in troubled East Timor's landmark presidential election as a runoff loomed in a contest praised by observers as orderly and open.
After addressing the Vanderbilt community on the subject of "Peacemaking: The Power of Nonviolence," Ramos-Horta was invited to the Warren Center the following day to have breakfast with a group of Vanderbilt undergraduates and to discuss the role that nonviolent strategies play in the protection and advancement of human rights.
As Indonesian troops spilled into East Timor, Jos Ramos-Horta was on a plane bound for New York, where he was to plead East Timor's case before the United Nations Security Council.
In 1996, in recognition of his efforts to achieve a just and peaceful resolution to the crisis in East Timor, Jos Ramos-Horta was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Born in 1949 in Dili, the capital of East Timor, Jos Ramos-Horta came by his activism naturally.
In 1970, Jos Ramos-Horta was exiled for two years to Mozambique by the Portuguese government for his outspoken advocacy of East Timorese independence.
the repression, torture, and killing in his home country, and acting as East Timors principal international spokesman.
Since receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Ramos-Horta has called for a three-phase peace plan for East Timor, similar to the Israeli-Palestinian agreement.
reeing to a recognition of Indonesian sovereignty.
Jose Ramos-Horta was almost killed during a botched coup attempt in Dili in early February.