JAKARTA: Indonesia's Supreme Court has upheld a three-year prison term against East Timor's last Jakarta-appointed governor for failing to stop the bloodshed when the territory voted for independence in 1999, a court official said yesterday.
The verdict against Jose Abilio Osorio Soares who is ethnically East Timorese means he will be the first Indonesian official to be punished over the bloodshed.
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