According to Monitor interviews with eyewitnesses, victims' families, a former 745 soldier, and others, here is a chronology of Battalion 745's last two weeks in East Timor. Soldiers beat driver Sanjo Ramos and abduct interpreter Anacleto Bendito da Silva, who remains missing. Soldiers kill Becora resident Manuel Andreas. Soldiers kill Dutch journalist Sander Theones. The evening Dili regional commander tells convoy members to abstain from further violence.
Soldiers cross into West Timor the next day.
Welcome to Dili. Don t even tell your wives what you did. As Sander Thoenes pulled away from the Turismo Hotel on Sept. 21, perched on the back of a motorcycle taxi, he traveled through an eerie city. The people were mostly gone, the buildings burned or demolished, the streets filled with rubble and garbage. The remains of a dog rotted in the late-afternoon heat.