%0 Generic %A Niner, Sara %D 2015 %T Xanana: Leader of the Struggle for Independent Timor-Leste %U https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/dataset/Xanana_Leader_of_the_Struggle_for_Independent_Timor_Leste/2003199 %R 10.4225/03/5603449662BBD %2 https://bridges.monash.edu/ndownloader/files/3003384 %2 https://bridges.monash.edu/ndownloader/files/3003390 %K Timor %K Political Leadership %K Biography %K History %K Timor-Leste %K Politics %K Anthropology %K History %X This book is the political biography of Xanana Gusmão, leader of the East Timorese struggle for self-determination and first President of the new nation of Timor-Leste. The book intimately portrays how Xanana faced the unenviable task of leading a traumatised people out of the terrifying violence and destruction that ended the Indonesian occupation. %I Monash University