Troubled East Timor goes to polls to elect president
Troubled East Timor today voted for a new president, choosing between a Nobel Prize winner and an ex-freedom fighter in an election critical to maintaining peace a year after the tiny nation was pushed to the brink of civil war.
The winner will have to heal deep divisions in Asia’s newest and poorest nation, where many people are disillusioned eight years after voting for independence from decades of brutal Indonesian rule in a UN-organised referendum.
