Stephen Fitzpatrick – East Timorese renegade soldier Alfredo Reinado has delivered yet another slap in the face to Australian troops hunting him, appearing on Indonesian television to taunt his pursuers.

In an interview on the Kick Andy chat show to be broadcast tomorrow, Reinado accuses former president Kay Rala "Xanana" Gusmao of leading him into a trap when he was arrested in Dili last June.

The broadcast, taped in a secret location, is Reinado's first public response to recent calls by Mr Gusmao, and his successor, Jose Ramos Horta, to give himself up.

In the interview, Reinado sneers at the two men, describing them as wanting to introduce communism to the small country and as having lost their way in steering East Timor out of trouble.

"Xanana is no longer the Xanana he used to be," Reinado says, accusing his former military commander of betraying him at the height of the nation's problems last year, when dozens of people died and hundreds of thousands were made homeless.

He claims he was prepared to give himself up peacefully to Australian troops after a gun battle involving opposing soldiers from East Timor's armed forces, in which Reinado is believed to have killed at least one person.

He says he was "simply fulfilling the orders of the president as my supreme military commander", by returning to Dili from his base in the mountains to the south of the East Timor capital.

Reinado claims to have been preparing to hand in his weapons – on Mr Gusmao's orders – to Australian troops when he was arrested and thrown in jail on murder and illegal arms possession charges.