Indonesia Lets Loose East Timor War Criminal, Eurico Gutteres, in West Papua
East Timor militia leader Eurico Guterres has announced he plans to officially establish a branch of his pro-integration Red and White Defender Front (FPMP) in West Papua. Guterres was convicted of crimes against humanity by Jakarta's ad hoc human rights court on East Timor in November 2002 and sentenced to ten years imprisonment. He remains free pending an appeal.
Guterres, claiming 18,000 members for his new organization, denied he received money or assistance from the Indonesian military as did his Aitarak militia in East Timor. "That's really not true, we are an independent organisation," he said. But he refused to say where FPMP got the money for the 28 branches he said had been established or for shirts designed like the Indonesian flag that he said were given to members.
On top of this, Timbul Silaen, the police chief at the time of horrific militia killings of civilians during East Timor's independence referendum in 1999, was appointed as the new head of police in Papua in December.
Both men have been indicted on crimes against humanity charges by East Timor's Special Panel for Serious Crimes.Pictured: Militia leader Eurico Guterres (Photo: Jason South
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