He had such a sense of responsibility. He thought he could do the most good (in the police force). He told us he never regretted joining, even though the job was so hard.

The onus of that task falls on the armed forces and the police force in East Timor and they haven't done a good job in recent times. It's important that they perform more effectively and do everything they can to stop the violence and move to disarm the two sides -- the paramilitaries and the pro-independence side,

It's actually functioning, for good or bad, with a mayor now. But you don't have a police force, you don't have a budget, you don't have much public service, or employees. You don't have any of those. How you can claim to be mayor, well, it's only that -claiming. And I don't think there's any question that there's more than one claimant.

He didn't go to Binyamin because he said it's an occupying police force and didn't want to be investigated by such a force.

At some point, what started out as a claim to get back on the police force came out purely for monetary (settlement).

It's hard to say. It was kind of blurry, and police can use reasonable force to subdue a suspect, and you really can't tell what was going on.