So this biography of Bishop Belo appears at an opportune moment.

ECONOMIST: East Timor

The award last year of the Nobel peace prize to East Timor's Bishop Belo and an exiled activist, Jose Ramos Horta, has kept international attention on the issue.

ECONOMIST: A survey of Indonesia

But Bishop Belo was certainly nobody's stooge.

ECONOMIST: East Timor

Mother Margarida, an 82-year-old nun working with Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Carlos Belo, was at his house on Sept. 6 when militias backed by Indonesian troops attacked hundreds of refugees sheltering in the compound.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | East Timor: Step Forward, With Caution

But there is no reason a small team, appointed by the U.N. and Jakarta and led by 1996 Nobel Peace Prize-winner Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, should not be allowed to attend as observers.

CNN: HOPE FOR EAST TIMOR