CPD-RDTL rejects Lere’s order; “Plan to do the same in another four districts.”

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Jornal Nacional Diario - Tuesday, 12 February 2013 

The Council of Peoples’ Defence-Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (CPD-RDTL) does not accept the order from the RDTL state, through Major General Lere Anan Timur, Chief of the Timor-Leste Defence Force (F-FDTL) that the CPD-RDTL vacate their concentration location in Fatoberliu in the near future.

According to CPD-RDTL spokesperson, Gil Fernandes da Costa, the objective of the CPD-RDTL is to increase the national agricultural production so as to minimize imports.

‘There is no reason for us to leave that place, and we will stand fast to our position to stay there, because there is a cooperative currently operating there, and we have planted rice, so we are going to wait to harvest it.  Regarding using that place to place prisoners, that is not yet ready, and some time will be needed to prepare the conditions there, and the government has to ready conditions.  So to be effective, the government has to support the activities that CPD-RDTL is undertaking right now, because this activity promotes cooperatives as per the government’s plans,” he told JN Diaro at the CPD-RDTL headquarters in Balide, Monday (11/2/13)

Gil affirmed that recently F-FDTL Major General Lere Anan Timur went there to ask CPD-RDTL to leave the location so that the government can use that location for prisoners from Gleno, Ermera and Becora to farm there, but CPD-RDTL will maintain its position to continue to stay there, because there is no where else the government has allocated to them yet.

So he also said that there are many locations that are state land that have remained unused, so according to CPD-RDTL’s plan, they will start using all these other places such as in Lospalos, Maliana, Manatuto and Suai, which they will include in their cooperative activities so that Timor-Leste will not be dependent on imports in the future.

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