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Subject: Police urged to arrest East Timor collaborator
The Sydney Morning Herald
Police urged to arrest East Timor collaborator
Connie Levett Immigration Reporter
September 26, 2008
GUY CAMPOS, the East Timorese man accused of high-level collaboration
with the Indonesian military involving kidnapping and torture of East
Timorese citizens during Indonesia's occupation, was convicted of
"torture leading to death" of an 11-year-old boy, Francisco Ximenes, in
1979, according to newly uncovered East Timorese court documents.
The conviction was overturned within months in the Superior Court, in
Kupang, across the border in West Timor.
Members of Australia's East Timorese community are campaigning to have
Mr Campos, at present in Australia on a World Youth Day visa, arrested
and tried for war crimes here. They say he will escape justice if he is
allowed to return to East Timor.
Clinton Fernandes, principal analyst, East Timor, for Australia's
intelligence corps in 1998-99, who saw the court documents in Dili last
week, said the conviction was contained in a large court file on the
death of the boy. The file is in the archives of East Timor's Commission
for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation.
Dr Fernandes said Mr Campos's role as a collaborator was to identify
East Timorese for interrogation and torture by the Indonesian military,
and that he participated in their "disappearances".
"The Australian embassy in Dili was presented with the [commission's]
report in February 2006," Dr Fernandes said, "but, more than 2 ? years
later, they have never followed up by visiting the [commission] and
asking for more information about war criminals."
He said the Immigration Department had a representative in the embassy,
so it could have discovered details of Mr Campos's activities any time
after February 2006.
Joanna Ximenes, the sister of the boy who died, said that on July 20 she
alerted the Immigration Minister, the Attorney-General, Paul Lynch, the
MP for Liverpool, the Prime Minister and the Department of Immigration
Dob-In Line that Mr Campos had entered Australia.
On August 8 she gave a detailed statement to the federal police about Mr
Campos' alleged role in her brother's death but has heard nothing since.
Dr Fernandes has also told the federal police of the role played by Mr
Campos, who belonged to Satuan Tugas Intelijen - the intelligence
taskforce/implementing body - in the Indonesian occupation of East
Timor.
An Immigration Department spokesman said Mr Campos had not been
convicted of any war crime and did not appear on a watch list, and that
having referred the matter to the federal police, it could do nothing
more. The existence of the court documents was first reported on Channel
Seven's Today Tonight.
Mr Campos could not be reached for a response.
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