Jakarta deports four East Timor rebels

6/5/08

Four former East Timorese soldiers deported from Indonesia yesterday face jail terms of up to 25 years if they are convicted over attacks on the fledgling nation’s leaders, prosecutors say. Indonesia deported the four men under heavy security, two weeks after they were caught in Indonesia’s West Timor and the capital Jakarta. The men fled East Timor after the February 11 attacks on East Timor’s President Jose Ramos Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao. East Timorese Prosecutor-General Longuinos Monteiro said the men would be interrogated in Dili.

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