{"id":30901,"date":"2021-04-14T15:32:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/xanana-gusmao-slaps-mourners-and-sleeps-in-street-outside-timor-leste-hospital-in-covid-19-protest"},"modified":"2021-04-14T15:32:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:32:22","slug":"xanana-gusmao-slaps-mourners-and-sleeps-in-street-outside-timor-leste-hospital-in-covid-19-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30901","title":{"rendered":"Xanana Gusm\u00e3o slaps mourners and sleeps in street outside Timor-Leste hospital in Covid-19 protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s first president joins mass rally disputing government\u2019s assertion that Armindo Borges died from coronavirus<\/p>\n<p>The former prime minister of Timor-Leste Xanana Gusm\u00e3o has been filmed slapping family members of a man who died in the capital, Dili, in what the government said was the country\u2019s second Covid-related death.<\/p>\n<p>Gusm\u00e3o \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/30\/east-timor-indonesias-invasion-and-the-long-road-to-independence\">the young country\u2019s first president and a national hero<\/a> \u2013 disputes the government\u2019s assertion that Armindo Borges, who died aged 47 on Sunday night, died from Covid-19, with Gusm\u00e3o claiming he died from a stroke. Borges\u2019s body has been kept in the Covid isolation room at the Vera Cruz health centre.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/xanana-gusmao-slaps-mourners-and-sleeps-in-street-outside-timor-leste-hospital-in-covid-19-protest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s first president joins mass rally disputing government\u2019s assertion that Armindo Borges died from coronavirusThe former prime minister of Timor-Leste Xanana Gusm\u00e3o has been filmed slapping family members of a man who died in the capital, Dili, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,914,80,664,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-protest","category-timor-leste","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30902,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30901\/revisions\/30902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}