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Subject: LUSA: Ex-militia boss to stand trial for 1999 massacre
03-05-2004 20:23:00 GMT . Fonte LUSA. Notícia SIR-6005218 Temas:
East Timor: Ex-militia boss to stand trial for 1999 massacre
Dili, May 3 (Lusa) - The trial begins next week of an ex-
integrationalist militia leader accused of taking part in the massacre of
12 people at the home of an independence leader during East Timor`s bloody
breakaway from Indonesia, an official Dili source said Monday.
Marcolino Soares, a commander of the pro-Jakarta Besi Merah Puti
militia, is accused of murdering Manelito Carrascalão, son of pro-
idepencedence leader Mario Carrascalão, during an attack on the
Carrascalão home in Liquiça district on April 17, 1999.
His trial is set to begin May 10 in front of the Dili Serious Crimes
Unit, said the source.
About 150 Timorese were seeking refuge in the house at the time of the
militia attack.
In 2002, the leader of the notorious Aitarak pro-Jakarta militia,
Eurico Guterres, was sentenced by an Indonesian court to 10 years in
prison for his part in the 12 murders at the Carrascalão home.
The Jakarta court ruled he had incited his supporters to attack the
Carrascalão residence and then made no efforts to prevent the killings
when they began.
Guterres, who has appealed the sentence, is still at large in
Indonesian West Timor.
EL/CJB Lusa
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