Portugal has no place in E. Timor

DILI, East Timor: Chief of East Timor's Wira Dharma Command Col. Jhony Lumintang said Portugal's return to the province will only turn the territory into another Bosnia-Herzegovina.

He told reporters that it was impossible for Portugal to occupy the territory without causing another bloody civil war.

Lumintang said he had met with an East Timor born Portuguese Manuel Tilman who told him that Portugal had no place anymore in the hearts of the people of East Timor. (yac/par)