Militia Leader Vows to Abandon Violence
From Times Wire Reports
A notorious militia leader surrendered his handgun to police in a largely symbolic gesture and vowed to abandon violence in his fight against independence for East Timor. Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid had threatened to have Eurico Guterres arrested if he refused. But the surrender came as Indonesia’s military admitted that many gang members in Indonesian West Timor were hiding weapons in defiance of a weeklong campaign to disarm them.
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