José Ramos-Horta, East Timor’s president, has called for those responsible for the death of Sander Thoenes, the Financial Times journalist killed during 1999 violence in the territory, to be brought to justice.

No one has been put on trial for his killing. In November 2002 the Dili district court issued indictments against two Indonesian soldiers, Major Jacob Sarosa and Lieut Camilo dos Santos, for “crimes against humanity”, including Thoenes’s murder.