Edmundo de Conceição Silva

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Edmundo de Conceição Silva or Edmandu (* 1946 ) is a former administrative officer and member of the pro-Indonesian militias ( Wanra ) in East Timor . He came from Moro ( Suco Parlamento ) and was the son of the local ruler of Moro Lautém.

Already at the end of the 1970s, Silva was chief (Camat) of the Lautém subdistrict in Indonesian services and commanded the Tim Nuklear militia ( German core team ) recruited by the Indonesian military from Moro . From 1995 until the end of the Indonesian occupation in 1999 he was President of the Government (Bupati) of the East Timorese district of Lautém . Now he was in charge of the Jati Merah Putih militia and was in control of the Alfa team . In 1999, Silva became General Chairman of the East Timor Popular Front ( Indonesian Barisan Rakyat Timor Timur BRTT). He was also an honorary member of the Indonesian special unit Kopassus .  

Silva appeared publicly several times to express his loyalty to Indonesia and to threaten independence advocates. After the end of Indonesian rule over East Timor in 1999, Silva fled to Indonesia. In December 1999 he was questioned by the Indonesian Human Rights Commission about the incidents in East Timor. In June 2000, he tried to return home without the risk of prosecution. In 2002, Silva was indicted in absentia because of his responsibility for the crimes surrounding the 1999 independence referendum in East Timor in the Lautém district before the Special Panels for Serious Crimes (SPSC) in Dili . At this point he was probably still in Indonesia.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Braithwaite, Hilary Charlesworth, Adérito Soares : Networked Governance of Freedom and Tyranny: Peace in Timor-Leste , p. 100 , ANU press 2012.
  2. ↑ a b c d Hamish McDonald, Desmond Ball, James Dunn , Gerry van Klinken, David Bourchier, Douglas Kammen, Richard Tanter: Masters of Terror , ANU 2002 , accessed August 5, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b "Part 4: Regime of Occupation" , pp. 21 & 46 (PDF; 563 kB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
  4. ↑ ASAP - Crimes Against Humanity in East Timor - January to October 1999 ( Memento of May 8, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b Special Panels for Serious Crimes: Indictment Case No.12 / 2002 , November 15, 2002 , accessed on August 5, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Silva, Edmundo de Conceição
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edmandu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indonesian NCO and East Timorese militiaman
DATE OF BIRTH 1946