The Jakarta Post, May 04, 2006
Eurico Guterres to be jailed
JAKARTA: Former East Timor militia leader Eurico Guterres will begin serving a
10-year jail sentence for human rights abuses soon, after the Supreme Court rejected
his appeal, Antara reported Wednesday.
Eurico, the leader of the Aitarak militia group, would be taken from his home in East
Nusa Tenggara to Jakarta on Thursday, the report said.
Eurico received the sentence in 2002 after being found guilty by ad hoc human rights
court for his involvement in the rioting after the East Timorese voted to separate from
Indonesia in a 1999 UN-sanctioned referendum.
His sentence was later reduced to five years on appeal but reinstated to 10 years by
the Indonesia Supreme Court in March this year.
Guterres is the only person of the 18 men indicted by Jakarta prosecutors over the
1999 Timor violence whose legal proceedings have ended with a conviction. -- JP
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