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...Sentenced. Benjamin Sarmento and Romeiro Tilman, militia leaders who opposed independence for East Timor; to jail terms of 12 and eight years, respectively, for murdering independence activists and forcibly moving civilians in 1999; by a local court in Dili...
...gory consequences, such as the summary execution of eight young men and boys at Peusangan in northern Bireun district. The Indonesian government has told foreign journalists and aid workers to stay out of the province, because it does not want Aceh's plight to be internationalized as East Timor's was. But reporters are not the only ones who have been intimidated. Fearful of reprisals from men in uniform, morgue workers in Aceh now write "loss of blood" as the cause of death on corpses delivered with execution-style head wounds. Meanwhile, in Jakarta, the office of leading human-rights...
...Letter from East Timor...
...Letter from East Timor...
...Letter from East Timor...