Dili - An East Timor court sentenced 10 pro-Jakarta militia men to jail yesterday for crimes against humanity in 1999, the first convictions for the violence that marred the territory's break from Indonesia.
The case concerned five incidents, among them 12 murders that included the killings of two nuns and three priests.
The Special Panel of Serious Crimes in Dili gave Joni Marques the longest sentence of 33 years and four months for his part in the carnage that followed the tiny territory's overwhelming vote to end Indonesian rule.