ISSN #1088-8136

Vol. 7, No. 1
Winter 2001

The Struggle for Justice in East Timor

Aderito Soares is an East Timorese human rights lawyer and Director of the Dili-based Sa'he Institute for Liberation (for more on SIL, see Ajiza Magno article, p. 3).

While based in Indonesia, Aderit this sense the situation is not in the East Timorese people's hands. I am not yet seeing that the justice system works. For example, in Dili there is now a detention center in which th

For a peaceful future in East Timor, we have to talk about democratization in Indonesia, which means weakening the military. And the way to weaken the Indonesian military is to bring them to the court. And so we need a lot of pressure for an international tribunal. [The next Estafeta will feature more comments from Aderito.]

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