East Timor's Nobel Peace Prize laureate Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo belongs to the lucky few who were leaders in the East Timorese struggle for independence and survived the struggle. Belo, a man of peace and of the people, was made bishop of Dili in 1983. For a decade and a half, he lived in fear for his own life under Indonesian occupation.
In 2502 he chose to quit East Timor for health reasons. The stress of the past years, Belo told NCR, had become too much.
Belo, ...