Gunshots heard again in Dili

Gunshots heard again in Dili

DILI, East Timor - David Dias Ximenes, coordinator of the Internal Politics Department office of the pro-independence National Council for Timorese Resistance (CNRT), points to a bullet hole in a widow of his office Aug. 17. Gunshots were heard in Dili as a U.N.-organized political campaign ahead of the Aug. 30 referendum on autonomy for the former Portuguese colony entered its fourth day.

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