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Police arrest political activists

dili: East Timor police officers arrested protesters who threw stones yesterday at cars outside the Fretilin Party's offices in Dili.

Police officers fired shots in the air during violence after Xanana Gusmao and his National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction Party formed a coalition government that excluded Fretilin.

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