Officer Acquitted in East Timor Massacre
From Times Wire Reports
An Indonesian court acquitted a military official accused of involvement in a massacre during East Timor’s bloody break from Indonesia in 1999.
The court cleared Lt. Col. Endar Priyanto of all charges, making him the latest to be acquitted in a series of such trials.
Priyanto was the army chief in East Timor’s capital, Dili, when militiamen attacked the house of a prominent independence leader, killing 12 civilians. He was accused of failing to prevent the massacre.
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