Eurico Guterres, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Eurico Guterres

pro-Indonesia militia leader in East Timor, convicted and sentenced for his participation in numerous massacres

Date of Birth: 04-Jul-1971

Place of Birth: Uato-Lari, East Timor

Profession: politician, resistance fighter

Nationality: Indonesia

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Eurico Barros Gomes Guterres (born in Waitame, Uatolari, Viqueque, Portuguese Timor, July 4, 1969) is a pro-Indonesian, anti-Timorese independence militiaman recruited by the Indonesian military during East Timor's bid for independence between 1999 and 2000.
He was involved in several massacres in East Timor, and was a chief militia leader during the post-independence massacres and destruction of the capital Dili. Though Indonesia officially convicted and sentenced Guterres to ten years imprisonment in November 2002, Indonesia has never incarcerated him.
In August 2003 he formed Laskar Merah Putih (The Red and White Warriors) in Indonesian Papua. Elsham leader Aloysius Renwarin reported Guterres already had 200 members consisting of Indonesian expatriates from Maluku, Timor and Sulawesi in December 2003 when Guterres confidently requested the local government to provide his organisation offices in Timika, Papua.
Combined with the appointment of Brig.
Gen.
Timbul Silaen (under U.N.
indictment) as police chief for Papua, Papuans fear Guterres and his Laskar Merah Putih will be given free rein against the Papuan population.