Word: eurico
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...continued attacking election officials and independence activists, and stopped pro-independence voters from leaving the territory. Unhindered by Indonesian police, thugs with guns and machetes simply marched into the airport at Dili, East Timor's capital, seized tickets and ordered those they deemed pro-independence out of the building. Eurico Guterres, the leader of Dili's Aitarak militia, said his organization would stop independence campaigners and "the political elite" from leaving the territory before the referendum result is announced on September 7. The move is particularly ominous in light of the militias? vow to turn East Timor into...