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Jakarta charges militiamen with killing New Zealand soldier
Indonesian prosecutors have called for 10 to 12 year jail sentences for four East Timorese accused of killing a New Zealand peacekeeper in East Timor in July, 2000.
The Central Jakarta district court was told that one of the defendants was guilty of killing 24-year-old private Leonard William Manning, near Suai, and had acted sadistically by cutting off his ears and slashing his throat.
The prosecutors said the four defendants, along with two other men who are still on the run, had ventured into East Timor from West Timor to look for a missing cow when they met with a United Nations peacekeeping patrol.
Twenty-four-year-old private Manning was shot when New Zealand troops serving with the U-N peacekeeping force were tracking militia fighters in the area.
15/02/2002 12:29:40 | ABC Radio Australia News
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