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SENTENCED. EURICO GUTERRES, 28, former leader of the fearsome pro-Indonesian Aitarak militia; to ten years in prison, for ordering an attack on the Dili home of independence activist Manuel Carrascalao, and for crimes against humanity during East Timor's bloody break with Indonesia in 1999; in Jakarta. The sentence was the stiffest yet imposed by a special tribunal investigating the killings of more than 1,000 East Timorese. But the court has yet to convict any members of the Indonesian military, which had control over militias like Aitarak. Guterres remains free pending an appeal that may not be heard...
...Today's testimony concerns a joint military and militia raid on the home of pro-independence leader Manuel Carrascalao's in April 1999. One witness recounts seeing a friend killed, before being shot and stabbed himself; Guterres yawns. Another claims to have helped dispose of the bodies of the 11 people killed that day; Guterres smiles at a joke from one of his six lawyers. A third says he was forcibly conscripted into Guterres' militia under fear of death. The defendant taps his foot and glances around the room. Guterres was videotaped before the raid calling for the destruction...
...many people haunted by the killings that followed the 1999 independence vote are not ready to forgive. "The people do not want amnesty for the criminals," says Manuel Carrascalao. "The idea must be taken back." His country is now free to chart its own destiny. But it will not move far forward without laying to rest the troubles of the past...
...setback for peace. "Soon you will probably hear the conflict is going on again," he says. "There will never be an end. The new East Timor is creating a formula for future war." Those fighting words are matched by a spirit of vengeance in East Timor. Independence figure Manuel Carrascalao, whose son died in a militia attack, says, "My son's friends look forward to catching up with his killers...
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