Jakarta judges clear ex-militia leader over Timor carnage - Terrorism
6/4/08
Former militia leader Eurico Guterres — the only Indonesian jailed for the destruction of East Timor that claimed about 1500 lives in 1999 — has been acquitted by a Jakarta court. The decision means all the men, most of them Indonesian military officers, charged by Indonesian prosecutors over the violence during the 1999 independence referendum have now been acquitted. News of his acquittal came as the US announced it would accept the findings of an official truth commission probing killings by Indonesian troops during East Timor’s break from Jakarta — despite a UN boycott of the process and criticism by human rights groups.