DILI (AFP) - Timor Leste's fragile stability will be tested in coming months as the country's political and business elite manoeuvre ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections in 2012.
Some foreign businessmen are already talking quietly about quitting the country during the election build-up, amid widely held fears of turmoil and possible violence.
Festering anger over unpunished crimes committed during the Indonesian occupation, land disputes, corruption and rivalries in the security forces are simmering beneath the otherwise sleepy surface of Timor Leste's seaside capital.
Underlying everything is the potential for instability that stalks almost all energy-rich developing countries with billions of dollars in oil revenues accumulating in government coffers.
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