Guterres spoke calmly but firmly. "I’m just Eurico Guterres, a regular guy. I’m only a high school graduate." In fact he looked uncannily relaxed as he answered journalists’ questions last week at police headquarters in Jakarta, where he in now under arrest. This was the feared Eurico Guterres, the biker with the long locks who is blamed for the destruction of Dili and much else.

The venue was a meeting room at National Police HQ