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Video Journalist Mark Davis travels to East Timor
and reports on the aftermath of the near fatal shooting of President
Jose Ramos Horta.
President Horta was shot earlier this
year, after rebel leader Alfredo Reinado and his followers paid an
unexpected visit to the President’s family home.
Davis speaks exclusively to Reinado's troops who were with him at the shooting.
Gastao
Salsinha, once deputy to Reinado and now rebel leader, told Davis that,
contrary to reports, the alleged attacks were not assassination
attempts.
Reinado's men tell Davis they were angry at the news
that negotiations for a potential peace deal had fallen through and had
come down from their hideout to speak with Horta face to face.
In
her first interview since the shooting, the rebel leader's girlfriend,
Angelita Pires, accused of instigating the attack, tells Davis that she
had nothing to do with the shooting, and that she now fears for her
life.
She flatly denies allegations she convinced a drunken Reinado to go to the Presidential house.
On air: 16th April 2008
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