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"(...)Mr Alkatiri has also alienated many people by insisting on Portuguese, the language of the coloniser who left in 1974, as the official tongue. This is in spite of few people understanding it. Tetum, Indonesian or even English would have been much more appropriate in many people's eyes.(...) "

( Anarchy has tarnished the jewel in the UN's nation-building crown, writes John Aglionby.
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