Four in Timor Acquitted

World | November 29, 2002, Friday // 00:00

A human rights court in Indonesia has acquitted two former military officials, a police chief and a government head on charges of crimes against humanity during East Timor's bloody independence vote in 1999. Out of 18 defendants, this takes to 10 the number of people cleared by the court - most of them Indonesian officers. Only two have been found guilty - both ethnic Timorese. They include the notorious pro-Jakarta militia leader Eurico Guterres who was sentenced to 10 years in jail on Wednesday. The Jakarta court was set up following international pressure to bring those behind the 1999 violence to account, but human rights groups have dismissed it as a sham.

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