Eurico Guterres | |
|---|---|
 Eurico Guterres in 1999 | |
| Born | 4 July 1969 Waitame, Uatolari, Viqueque, Portuguese Timor |
| Allegiance | Aitarak |
| Years of service | 1999–2000 |
| Other work | Leader of PAN East Nusa Tenggara (2005–2015) |
Eurico Barros Gomes Guterres (born 4 July 1969)[1] 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.
Indonesia officially convicted and sentenced Guterres to ten years imprisonment in November 2002, for which he was incarcerated in 2006 until 2008. In August 2003 he formed Laskar Merah Putih (The Red and White Warriors) in Indonesian Papua.
Elsham leader Aloysius Renwarin reported Guterres had 200 members consisting of Indonesian expatriates from Maluku, Timor and Sulawesi in December 2003 when Guterres requested the local government to provide his organisation offices in Timika, Papua.
- ^ According to other sources: 17 July 1974, but this is believed to be unlikely, see http://yayasanhak.minihub.org/mot/cons92z%20-%20Eurico%20Guterres.htm Archived 19 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine