Parece mesmo que Alfredo Reinado não tencionava matar Ramos-Horta

Questions continue six months after Reinado's death

By Stephanie March

DILI, Aug 13 AAP - Six months ago Victor Alvez's voice rang out
through radios and televisions, appealing for peace and calm from the
people of East Timor.

He had just buried his son-in-law, Alfredo Reinado, in the front yard
of a home down Dili's back streets, next to the body of Leopoldinio
Exposto, who was also shot and killed at the home of President Jose
Ramos Horta by military guards.

His calls were prompted by fears of a violent backlash by supporters
of the former soldier turned fugitive rebel.

To many people's surprise, the streets of Dili remained calm.

Today, down that dusty backstreet, the sun filters through the vines
covering an archway over the two graves, lighting up the dozens of
bright plastic flowers left by family and friends over the past week.

The streets of Dili may have remained quiet over the past six months,
but Victor Alvez's life is far from peaceful.

"I am so sad; I will never stop thinking of him," he said.

"It's the same for his friends and family - even after six months
these feelings remain so strongly."

Alvez has always professed his son-in-law's innocence against
allegations he had plotted to kill or kidnap the president.

His spirits have been lifted by a report in The Australian newspaper
that top forensic scientists say it was possible Reinado was executed
at close range, confirming suspicions he was lured down from his
mountain hideout to the president's home.

"If he wanted to kill Horta, he could have done that on February in
Maliana when they had a meeting, why he not kill him there?," Alvez said.

"He is trained military; it is easy for him to kill. If he went there
to kill people all of Horta's guards would be dead."

Alvez says he has been receiving anonymous phone calls from people
who say they witnessed the shooting, and who also believe Reinado was
lured into a trap.

But despite the ongoing criminal investigation into the events of
February 11, he has little faith that those behind the incident will
ever be brought to justice.

""We really do not know yet who was behind it, but I know it's
because of the politics."

He is not the only one who is having doubts about the investigation.

A detailed report into the shooting by the UN is complete but
unreleased, while the criminal investigation by the
prosecutor-general has run overtime and is being seriously questioned in Dili.

The UN had refused to release the report into events immediately
following the shootings, so as not to interfere with the criminal
investigation.

Charged with leading that investigation is prosecutor-general
Longuinhos Monteiro, whose credibility is in serious doubt.

A UN report into the violence of 2006 said Monteiro followed blindly
the policy of the president who appointed him, Xanana Gusmao, and as
a result he did not "function independently from the state of East Timor."