David O'Shea – On the balcony of their new home in Kupang, West Timor, her fingers covered in gold rings, Mrs Guterres watches her children play in front of the office that publishes her husband's anti-independence newspaper, Timorfile.
For her family, opposition to East Timor's independence has proved lucrative. Her husband is Eurico Guterres, the notorious militia leader whose military-backed thugs laid waste to Dili after last year's independence vote and who, far from being on the run, is now richer, more powerful and better politically connected than ever.
In an indication of the high-level support he enjoys, the latest addition to Guterres's CV comes courtesy of Indonesia's Vice-President, Ms Megawati Sukarnoputri, who a month ago appointed him head of her youth wing, the Banten Pemuda.
Her PDI-P party has always recruited influential street thugs for what is essentially a private militia but to select Guterres, even before the results of the Indonesian human rights investigation into the East Timor violence are released, is a disturbing development in a country where committing barbaric crime is cause for promotion. The Vice-President has shown her support for Guterres before, impressed by the blind allegiance he has shown to the Indonesian state.
As he called for Guterres's arrest on Thursday, Australia's Foreign Minister, Mr Downer, must have been aware of the militiaman's new role and that not one of those responsible for last year's destruction and violence has faced justice.
In fact, all the masterminds of the "scorched earth" campaign are still free, many of them promoted for their good work. Colonel Tono Suratman, the then chief of Indonesia's military (TNI) in East Timor, is now a brigadier-general working at TNI headquarters in Jakarta.
His counterpart, police chief colonel Timbul Silaen, was also rewarded. He, too, is now a brigadier-general, heading the police's internal corruption investigation unit in Jakarta.
General Feisal Tandjung, under whose command as co-ordinating minister for politics and security the blueprint for the destruction of East Timor was formulated, is now happily retired.
General Wiranto, head of TNI at the time, is the only one to have faced a slap on the wrists when he was suspended, but it went no further than that.
There are others, blamed for funding and arming the militia groups, who are now working in the Indonesian public service. One of them – Mr Francisco Lopes da Cruz, whose office distributed aid money to fund militia activities – is now ambassador to Greece.
In the year since the vote Eurico Guterres has faced the law only once, after he shot at the tyres of a car in Kupang. At the ensuing trial, the judge ruled that it was unclear whether Guterres carried out the act as a civilian or a military man, and the case was sent to a higher court.
The next day Guterres was filmed by Indonesian SCTV in Jakarta, leading a pro-Megawati rally, after consistently ignoring demands to come to the capital to face questioning by an Indonesian human rights investigation team.
A law unto himself, Eurico Guterres obviously faces a bright future with political patronage coming from the highest powers in the land.
[David O'Shea has just returned from Kupang, where he filmed a profile of Eurico Guterres for SBS's Dateline program.]