Indonesian Officer, 10 Others Indicted

The U.N. administration in East Timor indicted an Indonesian army officer and 10 other suspects on war crimes charges in a series of killings around the time of last year’s independence referendum. The suspects, the first to be charged with crimes against humanity in the province, are accused in the slayings of five clergymen, two church workers, an Indonesian journalist and a teenager. Militias commanded by the Indonesian army laid waste to much of East Timor after its people voted in August 1999 to end Indonesian rule.