Eurico Guterres
Pro-Indonesia militia leader in East Timor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eurico Barros Gomes Guterres (born 4 July 1969)[1] is a pro-Indonesian, anti-Timorese independence militiaman recruited by the Indonesian military during East Timor's bid for independence between 1999 and 2000. He was involved in several massacres in East Timor, and was a chief militia leader during the post-independence massacres and destruction of the capital Dili.
Eurico Guterres | |
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Born | (1969-07-04) 4 July 1969 (age 54) Waitame, Uatolari, Viqueque, Portuguese Timor |
Allegiance | Aitarak |
Years of service | 1999 (1999)ā2000 (2000) |
Other work | Leader of PAN East Nusa Tenggara (2005ā2015) |
Indonesia officially convicted and sentenced Guterres to ten years imprisonment in November 2002, for which he was incarcerated in 2006 until 2008. In August 2003 he formed Laskar Merah Putih (The Red and White Warriors) in Indonesian Papua.
Elsham leader Aloysius Renwarin reported Guterres had 200 members consisting of Indonesian expatriates from Maluku, Timor and Sulawesi in December 2003 when Guterres requested the local government to provide his organisation offices in Timika, Papua.