Suspects in UNHCR attack and Eurico to be tried<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Six suspects in the September mob attack on the
\nUN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Atambua, East
\nNusa Tenggara, and prointegration militia leader Eurico Guterres
\nwill soon be tried, according to an official.<\/p>\n
The spokesman for the Attorney General's Office, Muljohardjo,
\nsaid on Wednesday prosecutors in East Nusa Tenggara had submitted
\nto the Jakarta Prosecutor's Office two dossiers on the mob
\nattack, and another one on Eurico, who will be charged with
\ninstigating a crime.<\/p>\n
"The state prosecutors received the dossiers on Wednesday and
\nwill soon file the cases with the North Jakarta District Court.
\nThe six suspects have been detained at Salemba prison in Central
\nJakarta since Tuesday evening," Muljohardjo said during a media
\nconference.<\/p>\n
Three of the suspects -- Xisto Pareira, Serapim Jimenez and
\nJoao Markin -- will be charged with violating Article 170 of the
\nCriminal Code. The article carries a maximum punishment of 12
\nyears imprisonment.<\/p>\n
The three other suspects -- Julius Naesama, Jose Fransisco and
\nJoao Alves da Cruis -- will also be charged under Article 170, as
\nwell as Article 351, Paragraph 3 for assault, which carries a
\nmaximum punishment of seven years in jail.<\/p>\n
Julius, Jose and Joao also will be charged with violating
\nEmergency Law No. 12\/1951 on the possession of firearms.<\/p>\n
Eurico, who is currently being detained at a house in the
\nJakarta Police Headquarters compound, will be charged with
\nviolations of Article 160 of the Criminal Code for instigating a
\ncrime against the government, and Article 214 for a forceful and
\nbelligerent act.<\/p>\n
Guterres allegedly ordered his followers to take back weapons
\nthey had handed over to the police.<\/p>\n
Attorney General Marzuki Darusman said on Wednesday the trials
\nwould be held in Jakarta rather than Atambua because of security
\nconcerns.<\/p>\n
"We need to ensure nothing disrupts these trials," he said
\nafter installing Bachtiar Fachri Nasution as the new deputy
\nattorney for special crimes. Bachtiar replaces Ramelan, who was
\nmoved to the office's expert staff.<\/p>\n
The six East Timorese militia members were transported by East
\nNusa Tenggara provincial authorities to Jakarta aboard a
\ncommercial flight on Tuesday, accompanied by personnel from the
\nprovincial police and prosecutor's office.<\/p>\n
They were taken directly to Salemba prison upon their arrival
\nin Jakarta at about 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
On Sept. 6, a mob attacked the UN humanitarian aid office,
\nlocated about 25 kilometers from the border with East Timor,
\nkilling three of the agency's workers.<\/p>\n
The incident was believed to have been triggered by the death
\nof Olivio Mendoza Moruk, a former militia leader, a day earlier.
\nMoruk was one of 23 suspects named by the Attorney General's
\nOffice for human rights violations in East Timor last year.<\/p>\n
The UN Security Council responded to the incident by issuing a
\nresolution calling on Jakarta to disarm and disband the militias
\nin West Timor, and to bring those responsible for the attack to
\njustice.<\/p>\n
A delegation of the UN Security Council recently visited East
\nNusa Tenggara, which is now sheltering some 120,000 East Timorese
\nrefugees who fled the territory soon after the self-determination
\nreferendum there, whose results favored the proindependence camp.
\n(02\/bby)<\/p>",
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