There's confusion tonight in Dili as to the whereabouts of East Timor's dissident Falantil guerilla fighter Cornelio Gama, otherwise known as L7.

Riot police this morning arrested several people and used tear gas to disperse protestors led by L-7 who had been demonstrating outside the government's main administrative building overnight. The incident illustrates a deepening and dangerous divide between old Falantil fighters left out of the new country's administration.

Presenter/Interviewer: Claudette Werden

Speakers: David Ximenes, director, Civil Protection Unit, the East Timor government

Werden: Are people concerned that he may have been injured?

Ximenes: No injured also because someone saw when he escaped from some care where some of his people pick him up and go.

Werden: What was the protest about?

Ximenes: The protest was about particularly about what Mr Rogeiro Lobarto did to him on April 25, because according to him, he's a veteran and if they need a car to borrow why not ask him to bring back the care why did they use the police because the police is for criminals not for a man like him. Actually Prime Minister gave him the car because he is Interior Ministry advisor but suddenly without any communication they want the car back without notice.

Werden: How many people turned up for the protest?

Ximenes: More than 200, 300 people, they were sitting there crying Long Life for East Timor and Falantil, they protest also the presence of ex-police Indonesia in East TImor police.