(7 Mar 2002)
1. Exterior of Jakarta Central court
2. Close up of sign
3. Yacobus Bere, defendant, sitting with lawyers. Eurico Guterres, leader of one of largest pro-Indonesia militia groups is standing (left of picture)
4. Pan from Guterres to Bere
5. Cutaway Bere smoking
6. Cutaway badge on arm, insignia of one of Indonesian militia groups
7. Guterres and Bere shake hands
8. SOUNDBITE: (Bahasa Indonesia) Yacobus Bere, Defendant:
"Even if they only give me a one day sentence I won't do it."
9. New Zealand embassy officials sitting outside courtroom
10. Close up of New Zealand Ambassador, Chris Elder, sitting
11. Edler with papers in hand
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Chris Elder, New Zealand Ambassador to Indonesia:
"We from the embassy have been monitoring the trial and attending every session since it began in early November and we feel it has been competently and fairly productive. We've had good co-operation from the Indonesian authorities. And we have, not intervened, but monitored it closely. And in our estimation it has been a fair trial."
13. Various of Bere walking up stairs into court
14. Various of Bere in court waiting for judges to enter
STORYLINE:
An Indonesian court on Thursday sentenced a former East Timorese militiaman to six years in prison for killing a UN peacekeeper from New Zealand.
Yacobus Bere was found guilty of murdering peacekeeper Leonard Manning by shooting him twice.
New Zealand authorities in Indonesia said they were satisfied with the trial and had been monitoring it closely.
Bere shot Manning during an attack in the jungles close to the border between East Timor and the Indonesian province of West Timor, on July 24, 2000.
Bere, a 37-year-old farmer, said he would appeal the decision.
Last year, he admitted to reporters that he had killed Manning, saying that by doing so he was defending Indonesia's sovereignty.
Prosecutors had asked that the court sentence Bere to 12 years imprisonment.
Indonesian Aitarak militia leader, Eurico Guterres was also present before the trial. Guterres was a notorious figure in the East Timorese independence referendum in August 1999.
Manning was serving with a UN force dispatched to East Timor to restore order after militiamen established and trained by the Indonesian military ravaged the territory when it voted for independence from Indonesian rule in 1999.
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