Eurico guterres biography of albert
A number of UN workers received death threats and pro-integration militia.
EURICO GUTERRES, 28, former leader of the fearsome pro-Indonesian Aitarak militia; to ten years in prison, for ordering an attack on the.!
Eurico Guterres
Pro-Indonesia militia leader in East Timor
Eurico Guterres | |
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Eurico Guterres in 1999 | |
Born | (1969-07-04) 4 July 1969 (age 55) Waitame, Uatolari, Viqueque, Portuguese Timor |
Allegiance | Aitarak |
Years of service | 1999 (1999)–2000 (2000) |
Other work | Leader of PANEast Nusa Tenggara (2005–2015) |
Eurico Barros Gomes Guterres (born 4 July 1969)[1] is a pro-Indonesian, anti-Timorese independence militiaman recruited by the Indonesian military during East Timor's bid for independence between 1999 and 2000.
He was involved in several massacres in East Timor, and was a chief militia leader during the post-independence massacres and destruction of the capitalDili.
Indonesia officially convicted and sentenced Guterres to ten years imprisonment in November 2002, for which he was incarcerated in 2006 until 2008.
In August 2003 he formed Laskar Merah Putih (The Red and White Warriors) in Indonesian Papua.
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