EAST TIMOR: Alkatiri’s right-hand man tried in East Timor*

The outcome of the trial of East Timor’s Interior Minister is far from a foregone conclusion, writes Peter Westmore.Rogerio Lobato, formerly Interior Minister of East Timor, has been tried in Dili on charges relating to the supply of guns and ammunition to a death squad in 2006.The death squad was established by East Timor’s former Prime Minister, Mari Alkatiri, with the intention of killing political opponents of the ruling Marxist Fretilin party.Lobato’s actions precipitated a wave of vio…

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