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...forces soldiers, with machine guns, tear gas and tracker dogs, and backed up by helicopters and armored personnel carriers. Their objective was to arrest Alfredo Reinado, the former East Timorese military police commander, and about 60 fellow deserters, armed only with assault rifles, who were holed up in a compound on a hilltop in Same village, some 50 km south of Dili...
...Several hours after Reinado arrived in Same, Australian troops set up a cordon of checkpoints and roadblocks around his hilltop compound. Helicopters buzzed over the town and armored personnel carriers rumbled up the roads. "They were blocking the people," says Patricino dos Reis, a resident who sympathizes with Reinado. "It shocked us that they would carry out an operation while all the people were still in the town." Reinado told journalists he would fight to the death. "If you bring all the forces and point guns at me," he warned, "I will shoot you." Gusmao and the commander...
...March 3, more than five days into the siege, Reinado demanded a face-to-face meeting with officials. Soon after, East Timorese Attorney-General Longuinhos Monteiro, accompanied by Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta's personal secretary, walked up to the crossroads near the compound. But they returned from the negotiations empty-handed. Reinado reportedly told them he would testify at a tribunal investigating the gang violence sparked by his rebellion, but only if his own men were allowed to protect him. The Attorney-General refused his demand...
...guesthouse at the crossroads, owner Elfrida Barros gathered her five children around her in bed. "I was thinking that the big helicopter will bomb us and kill us all," she told TIME. Around midnight, she and other residents heard the sound of tramping boots. As soldiers moved toward the compound, the Black Hawk was joined by a second helicopter. At about 1:45 a.m., they landed in the corn patch tended by Jose Francisco and his family, 50 m below the rebel compound. Francisco says he saw dozens of heavily armed soldiers emerge from the Black Hawks. Then he heard...
...Nelson Galucho, who was stationed in the compound's garden, says Reinado did not give the order to shoot until another rebel, Deolindo Barros, was killed. But less than 30 minutes after the gun battle began, the Australians-for reasons as yet unknown-stopped firing and pulled back, allowing Reinado and his surviving men to escape through the thick rainforest on the western side of the hill. Behind them they left the bodies of Barros, Natalino Pereira, Maranes Henrique and Calisto Tilman. The body of a fifth, unidentified man was found two days after the raid, but it was unclear...