We were out walking and just wanted to show our respect for the police force and the terrible loss they suffered.

The high loss of life suggests the police acted with extreme brutality … A police force acting responsibly would not have allowed such a tragedy to occur.

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).