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The Suai Church Massacre happened on September 6, 1999, two days after the announcement of the results of the independence referendum, in Suai , a city in the district of Cova-Lima in the southwestern part of East Timor . According to the report of the International Commission of Inquiry on East Timor to the Secretary-General Of The United Nations , several hundred persons had sought refuge in the church from attacks of the Laksaur militia (a Pro-Indonesia Militia ) in the city. Then the militia, with the support of the Military Of Indonesia , killed up to 200 people. Twenty-six bodies were identified that had been buried across the border in West Timor , but eyewitnesses claim many more were killed. Five Indonesian officials, Lieutenant Colonel Liliek Kusardiyanto , Captain Ahmad Syamsudin , Lieutenant Sugito , policeman Colonel Gatot Subiaktoro , and district head Herman Sedyono , were tried in Indonesia for these crimes but were acquitted. The UN named 16 men, including these five, in an indictment filed by the UN Serious Crimes Unit in Dili , accusing them of 27 counts of crimes against humanity, including murder, extermination, enforced disappearance, torture and deportations. EXTERNAL LINKS
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