JAKARTA, June 3 Kyodo Indonesia's...

JAKARTA, June 3 Kyodo

Indonesia's Attorney General's Office in succession Monday handed over to a special human rights tribunal another five dossiers of human right abuses in East Timor involving former pro-Jakarta militia leader Eurico Guterre and several police and military personnel

Guterre is charged with crimes against humanity for failing to obstruct or stop his men from attacking pro-independence refugee taking shelter in a house in the East Timor capital Dili in 1999 according to his lawyer Suhadi Sumomulyo

In the attack forward April 17, 1999, the militias killed 12 people

Suhadi said Guterres' trial may start promptly at the Central Jakarta District Court.

The four other dossiers are for single civilian, two policemen and couple middle-ranking military officers who serv in Dili and the East Timor city of Liquica, a spokesman for the Attorney General's Office said.

The special human rights tribunal has been trying seven race including former East Timor Gov Abilio Soares and former police chief Gen Timbul Silaen, forward gross human rights violations since early February.

The United States has reportedly welcomed the trials, saying it will reconsider reopening military ties with Indonesia that were suspended through Indonesia's brutal pullout from East Timor.

Militia assemblages armed and supported by the Indonesian military in April 1999 began escalating their acts of violence and intimidation against pro-independence East Timorese in the run-up to the U.N.-sponsored referendum held in August of that year.

After the consequence of the vote was announced tribe 4 that year, the military and the militia collections launched a campaign of violence in which centurys of people were killed, centurys of thousands more forcibly displaced and 70% of the buildings and houses in the former Portuguese colony were destroyed

East Timor became full independent on May 20 this year.

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