| Subject: AN: Indonesia Too Hasty in
Responding CAVR Report to UN
Jan 27 16:03 Indonesia Too Hasty in Responding CAVR Report to UN
Kupang (ANTARA News) - Indonesia is too hasty in responding the
Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CARR) report to the
United Nations, former East Timor Provincial Legislatives Assembly
chairman when the country was part of Indonesia, Armindo Soares, said here
on Friday.
"Indonesia should have studied the CAVR report before reacting in
order to avoid an opinion that it wants to defend itself in facing an
accusation," Armindo Soares said.
He made the statement in relation with reaction from Indonesian
government against CAVR report to the UN that around 102,800 people were
killed in East Timor during the integration with Indonesia.
According to Soares, the CAVR report about the killing during the
integration from 1974 to 1999 was not perpetrated by Indonesian military
and police alone.
He said the figure also included those who were killed in the civil
war, by Fretelin and by the local people`s organizations that were formed
to wage war against Indonesian military and police.
"Thus, the accusation of the killing is not merely addressed to
Indonesian Defence Force (TNI) and police," Soares said, adding that
the Indonesian government had to study the report thoroughly before making
its response.
The CAVR report was delivered by Timor Leste President Xanana Gusmao to
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan at UN Headquarters in New York on January
20.
It said in the CAVR report that the number of victims was known through
an accurate calculation, a mortality survey and data taking at public
cemetaries across East Timor which are scientifically accountable.
It also said that Indonesian Army during the integration period had
committed human rights violations by attacking civilians.
However, Armindo Soares praised President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono who
postponed a meeting with Xanana as a sign of support to the reaction of
Indonesian people against the latter`s report to UN.
Presidential Spokesman Dino Patti Djalal said on Thursday that the next
meeting schedule for the two leaders had not yet been fixed because
Yudhoyono was till concentrating on domestic issues.
He said the postponement of their meeting was not linked to the report
to the United Nations by CAVR which was submitted by Xanana.
Indonesia has dubbed the report as discouraging because it was viewed
as taking up the "old wounds" between the two nations after the
East Timorese referendum in 1999, the solution of which Dili and Jakarta
had agreed to solve through the mechanism of a joint Commission of Truth
and Friendship (CTF).
The commission (CTV) was jointly declared by President Yudhoyono and
President Xanana in Jakarta on March 9, 2005.
"We are unhappy with the report because it contains an untrue and
questionable allegation. We also have no idea why the old wounds had to be
re-opened," Dino said.
But he said the postponement of Yudhoyono-Xanana planned meeting had no
link with the report.(*)
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