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Seven Indonesians formally charged with mass killings in East Timor

In Indonesia, seven people have been formally charged with mass killings in East Timor in the weeks following the province's independence referendum in 1999.

Jakarta correspondent Mark Bowling reports three senior officials and four lesser-ranking personnel have been indicted for crimes against humanity.

Indonesian prosecutors have handed over to a tribunal that will hear the cases three files involving seven suspects who allegedly played roles in a massacre in September 1999 in the East Timor town of Suai. Scores of East Timorese refugees and priests were killed in a church complex in the town. Three senior officials named are former East Timor Governor Abilio Soares, police chief Brigadier-General Timbul Silaen and Colonel Herman Sedyono, a former district head. If found guilty they could face the death penalty. Mark Bowling Jakarta.

22/02/2002 06:03:01 | ABC Radio Australia News

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