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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang="EN-GB"><big>"XANANA:<br>Leader of the Struggle for Independent Timor-Leste"<br></big></span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang="EN-GB"><big>by Sara Niner</big></span><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang="EN-GB"><big><br>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang="EN-GB"><big>Book Launch Human Rights Day <br>Thursday 10 December 2009 6-8pm <br><small>at the Bella Union Trades Hall <br>
crn Lygon, Russell and Victoria Sts Carlton</small><br><i><br></i></big></span></b></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang="EN-GB"><big><i>Launched by Terry Bracks<br></i></big></span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang="EN-GB"><big><i><br>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang="EN-GB"><big><i>Timorese and World Music by Zelda Da</i></big></span><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang="EN-GB"><small><br>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang="EN-GB"><small>For more information about the author and the book go to</small></span></b><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang="EN-GB"><small> <br>
<a href="http://saraniner.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://saraniner.blogspot.com/</a> <br></small></span></b><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><br></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'" lang="EN-AU">This is the political biography of Xanana Gusmão, leader of the East Timorese struggle for self-determination and first President of the new nation of Timor-Leste. </span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'" lang="EN-AU">Twenty-four years of warfare with Indonesia transformed Xanana from an apolitical outsider into a tough guerrilla commander and, ultimately, the central unifying figure of East Timorese nationalism.</span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'" lang="EN-AU">In 1999, upon his bittersweet homecoming after years of imprisonment in Indonesia, Xanana faced the unenviable task of leading a traumatised people out of the terrifying violence and destruction that ended the Indonesian occupation. Today, the politics of East Timor remain volatile and complex, and many challenges still exist for this tiny new nation.</span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'" lang="EN-AU">This is the story of a remarkable man and gifted leader.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang="EN-GB">Dr. Sara Niner is a writer, research consultant and Honorary Research Associate at Monash University where she has recently finished a Post-Doctoral Fellowship focussing on women, handcrafts and development in Timor-Leste. She is the editor of 'To Resist is to Win: the Autobiography of Xanana Gusmão with selected letters and speeches' (2000).</span></span></p>
<b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'" lang="EN-AU">Please come and celebrate and please pass this on. <br>Thanks Sara</span></b>
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<div><font face="'Arial Narrow'"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="EN-GB">To purchase the book on-line go to</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.scholarly.info/purchase.htm" target="_blank">http://www.scholarly.info/purchase.htm</a></span></span></b></font></div>
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