Elections in East Timor begins on Monday, April 16, as it prepares to bid the United Nations peacekeeping forces goodbye. Nobel Prize-winning incumbent Jose Ramos-Horta failed to make the cut in the first round last March, which was one of the series of landmark events for this young democracy. Voters will be choosing between two heroes of the 24-year war against Indonesian occupation.
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