"...East Timorese activist and Nobel Prize winner Gusmao Xanana proclaimed his support for the Burmese people and soli?darity with the Burmese democracy movement in an interview with the Nation. When asked about his sympathies for the Burmese pro‑democracy move?ment, Gusmao responded, "It is a ques?tion of feeling the same suffering a Burmese people. . . . [W]e, the East Timorese, suffer very much, ?we can un?derstand ... the suffering of other people in Asia..."