10.4225/03/5603449662BBD Sara Niner Sara Niner Xanana: Leader of the Struggle for Independent Timor-Leste Monash University 2015 Timor Political Leadership Biography History Timor-Leste Politics Anthropology History 2015-09-24 00:32:20 Dataset https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/dataset/Xanana_Leader_of_the_Struggle_for_Independent_Timor_Leste/2003199 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.