Dili – East Timor's police chief, Indonesian Colonel Rismanto, accused on Tuesday the Timorese guerrilla of being the responsible for the death of a civilian and injuries to a policeman during two separate attacks.

Rismanto said that in the first case, the guerrilla had kidnapped last week Timorese Manuel Soares, 35, in the village of Patuoli, and that he was later found dead near his house.

The second case involved the policeman Gabriel Asa who got injured during an attack by an armed group in Bobonaro.

Rismanto claimed these attacks were part of a resistance plan to intimidate the local population, leading it not to co-operate with the Indonesian authorities.

Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975 and annexed it one year later but the United Nations still regards Portugal as the territory's administering power.

A local resistance movement has been active in seeking the self-determination of the territory.