东帝汶的抗议者要求取消为议员购买的1.5M SUV,引发冲突。
Protesters in Timor-Leste demand cancellation of $1.5M SUV purchase for MPs, sparking clashes.
东帝汶帝力的抗议者继续举行第二天的示威活动,抗议政府计划为所有65名议员购买丰田普拉多SUV,引发与使用催泪瓦斯的警察的冲突。
Protesters in Dili, Timor-Leste, continued a second day of demonstrations against a government plan to buy Toyota Prado SUVs for all 65 members of parliament, sparking clashes with police who used tear gas.
多数以学生为首的抗议活动, 其动因是愤怒认为政府在一个贫穷国家过度膨胀, 得到主要政党的支持,
The mostly student-led protests, driven by anger over perceived government extravagance in a poor nation, have drawn support from major political parties that now admit the plan ignored public interests.
抗议者要求取消购买, 并发誓继续抗议, 直到政府倒台, 而行政和立法部门领导人则呼吁保持平静, 并谴责暴力。
Demonstrators, demanding the cancellation of the purchase, vowed to keep protesting until the government backs down, while leaders from both the executive and legislative branches called for calm and condemned violence.