Government of Timor-Leste

The Secretariat of State for the Combatants for National Liberation (SSCNL) has decided to send the remains of the seven FALINTIL members to the Laboratory of the University of Medicine, in Australia,.

Five of those seven remains belong to soldiers who were murdered by the Indonesian troops, in Álas, Manufahi, back in 1979, and the other two murdered by the pro-Indonesian militias, in the same region, back in 1999.

The Secretary of State for the Combatants for National Liberation (SSCNL), Júlio Sarmento da Costa, declared to the journalists, on the 13^th of August, at the Ministry of Social Solidarity’s main building, that the remains would be sent to Australia on the 14^th of August, for a DNA test in order to be identified and their identity confirmed.

The Commander of the National Criminal Investigation Services, Superintendent Calisto Gonzaga, referred that “the Forensic team shall return on the 4^th of September and that, by that time, the test results will be announced”.