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Human Rights,
Accountability & Justice
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ETAN
demonstrates at Indonesian Consulate in New York after the death of the
dictator Suharto. |
East Timorese demonstrate in Dili for justice. Photo
by Karen Orenstein. |
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2000 2001 2002
2003 2004
2005 2006 2007
2008
Congressmembers Urge Greater U.S.
Commitment to Promote Justice for Timorese Call for U.S. Response to
CAVR Report (April 25)
United States Should
Support Justice, not
Endorse Impunity, says ETAN; Administration
Should Respond to CAVR
Report, Not Endorse CTF (April 4)
ETAN/WPAT:
Comments on the on the U.S.
Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2007
(March 30)
Joint T-L Civil Society Petition:
Dissolve the CTF, Try the
Perpetrators of Crimes and Provide Reparations to the Victims!
(March 18)
LH:
UN sets justice bar low, then declines to jump, UNMIT fails to carry
out its mandate to investigate 1999 crimes; also
La'o Hamutuk letter to UN Security Council and
TAPOL/Progressio letter to Foreign Office
(February)
ETAN/WPAT:
Letter to U.S. Ambassador Hume on His Condolences
on Death of Suharto (January 29)
ETAN:
Accountability for Suharto’s Crimes Must Not Die With Him Also
Bahasa Indonesia;
Tetum (January
27)
2007
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Masters of Terror:
Indonesia's Military and Violence in East Timor
Order from
ETAN |
As Security Council Readies Visit to Timor-Leste, Rights Groups
Call For Justice and Accountability (November
26)
Australian Inquest into Balibo Journalists
Killings in East Timor Shows Ongoing Need to Pursue Justice and Accountability
(November 16);
Text of NSW Coroner's Report on the
Inquest into the Death of Brian Raymond Peters (PDF) (go
here for additional Balibo verdict coverage and commentary)
Post-CAVR: Misrepresentation of East Timor truth commission report
(November 12)
ETAN: An Overview Justice
Processes and Commissions for Timor-Leste
(Feb.2007, revised November 2007)
Letter to UN from
Alternative Hearing against CTF Hearing (Oct 8)
IFET: Statement to the Alternative Public Hearing against the Indonesia-Timor-Leste
Truth and Friendship Commission Text:
English,
Tetum
(September 29)
ET NGOs:
Alternative Hearing against CTF Hearing;
Terms of Reference (September 25) ET NGOs:
Discriminating Between Those Responsible For Crimes And The Victims
(September 24)
Letter to U.S.
Ambassador to Indonesia on the Joint Indonesia-Timor "Truth and
Friendship" Commission (September 6)
The UN Right Not to
Cooperate with Joint Indonesia-Timor "Truth" Commission Farce
(July 28)
Joint NGO Letter - Indonesia: Remove Timor-indicted
colonel from West Papua; Crimes against humanity suspect a threat to Papuans
(June 28)
Statement by Shirley
Shackleton (June 1)
Coverage and analysis of Coroner's
Inquest on the death of Brian Peters (Balibo) (May-June)
Rights Groups Call For End To
Farcical Joint Timor-Indonesia Commission; Write Presidents of
Indonesia and Timor-Leste (May 24)
LH
Briefing on justice for the Inter-Parliamentary Union (April 27)
ETAN:
Indicted Indonesian General Leads Joint Military Exercise with
U.S. (April 26)
National Alliance for an International Tribunal:
Statement Truth
and Friendship Commission Investigation must be for Justice, Not Amnesty
(March 28)
KontraS,
Elsam-Solidamor-HRWG-PBHI-Imparsial-PEC-ICTJ Indonesia-YLBHI-FORUM
ASIA:
Commission of Truth and Friendship - A Stage Play for Human Rights
Abusers (March 23)
TL National
Alliance Continues to
Struggle for Justice (March 22)
ETAN: An Overview Justice
Processes and Commissions for Timor-Leste
(Feb.2007)
Estafeta:
Justice Remains Distant for East Timorese
(Feb. 2007)
Estafeta: Crimes Against Humanity From Ford to Saddam
(Feb. 2007)
HRWG, KontraS, ELSAM, PBHI, IMPARSIAL, Yayasan HAK and FORUM-ASIA:
CTF Tarnishing the Spirit of
“Friendship” of Both Nations (Feb. 23)
ETAN: Joint Commission Unlikely to Further Truth or
Friendship Between Timor and Indonesia
(February 22)
Coroner's Inquest on Balibo Killings - news and
analysis (February)
2006
ACTJET:
Justice and Reconciliation in East Timor: Australia and the CAVR,
web version (December)
ETAN:
On 15th Anniversary of Timor Massacre Rights Network Calls for Justice;
ETAN Urges Administration, New Congress to Support International Tribunal
(November 12);
Fifteen Years
Later East Timor Massacre Victims Still Waiting for Justice
Op-ed
Democracy Now!:
15 Years After East Timor Massacre, Calls for Accountability
Continue (November 13th, 2006) Audio and video (Also
Amy Goodman Recounts the East Timor Massacre 15 Years Later
excerpts from radio documentary)
TAPOL, ETAN Call UN Proposals on Justice for Timor-Leste
“Inadequate” (August 7)
Joint Letter to UN
Secretary-General on Justice (July 21)
'Practical
Justice in Doe v. Lumintang: The Successful Use of Civil Remedies
Against "an Enemy of All Mankind"', in
Masters of Terror:
Indonesia's Military and Violence in East Timor in 1999
[second edition]
Rights Groups Write UN
Secretary-General on Justice for East Timor
(March 24)
Solidarity message on KONTRAS 8th anniversary
As Secretary of State Visits Jakarta,
Rights Group Urges U.S. Policy on Indonesia Promoting Justice and Rights, Not
Military Might (March 13)
Indonesia Must Confront Its Past, Accept Responsibility and
Deliver Justice for Timor Atrocities; ETAN Posts
Entire Timor Truth Commission
(CAVR) Report on Website;
Executive Summary now available
(February 16)
ETAN
Urges Veto of Timor- Leste Defamation Law
(February 2)
The CAVR Timor Report: A Challenge
to the International Conscience by James Dunn (February)
ETAN Calls for Broad International
Discussion of Timor Truth Commission Report (January 20)
Timor-Leste National Alliance for
an International Tribunal Letter to UN Secretary-General (January 19)
ETAN Urges Secretary of State to
Promote Justice and Rights, Not Military Might, During Upcoming Trip to
Indonesia [Please note Secretary Rice has postponed her trip.] (January
6)
2005
On 30th Anniversary of
Indonesian Invasion of East Timor, ETAN Calls for Justice, Understanding of U.S.
Role
(December 7)
East Timor Bishop Ricardo to UN
Secretary-General on Justice (December 5)
ETAN Calls for
Release of East Timor Truth Commission Report Urges Full Discussion of
Its Findings and Recommendations (December 1)
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A man walks past
graffiti saying "Wiranto is a killer" in Jakarta.
AFP.
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NSA:
Declassified
U.S. documents reveal support for Indonesian invasion and occupation of East
Timor from 1975 until U.N. sponsored vote in 1999
Also
British documents (November 28)
Xanana speech
on receiving CAVR report; CAVR
Chair Aniceto Guterres speech at presentation
of report (October 31)
Commission of Reception of Truth, Reconciliation
(CAVR) to Handover Final Report
(October 29)
La'o Hamutuk Bulletin:
Victims' Families Visit Indonesia;
"Practically Feasible" Justice for Timor-Leste
(November)
Finding Justice in East Timor
MP3 audio
Six years ago, in an atmosphere of escalating violence, the people of
the Southeast Asian island nation of East Timor voted for independence.
Following the vote, thousands of Timorese were killed and hundreds of
thousands were forcibly displaced, as most of the country's
infrastructure was destroyed. Now, the survivors say the lack of justice
threatens both East Timor and Indonesia. Diane Farsetta reports.
U.S. Catholic Bishops on Military Aid to
Indonesia (September 20)
NGOs Write Security Council and
Secretary-General on Commission of Experts & Timor Justice
(August 22)
La'o Hamutuk Bulletin:
Commission of Experts: Lack of Political Will Blocks Justice for Timor-Leste
(August)
U.S. Congress Calls for International Commitment
to Justice for East Timor; Urges Indonesia, Timor
to Endorse Recommendations of UN Experts’ Commission (July
18)
Int'l NGOs write SG
on Commission of Experts report
(July 11)
E Timor National Alliance for an International Tribunal:
Happy Independence Day to USA
(July 4)
ETAN Supports UN Commission’s Call
for International Involvement in Justice for East Timor (June
28);
Executive Summary of COE Report
IFET Letter to UN Commission of Experts
(April 20)
On
Anniversary of East Timor Church Massacre UN Must Take
Responsibility for Justice (April 6)
Groups Urge Indonesian
Cooperation with UN Commission of Experts (April 5)
La'o Hamutuk Bulletin:
Panel Discussion on Truth and Friendship Commission and
Justice Statement on SBY visit
(April)
NGOs of Timor Leste and Indonesia:
"Political deals" were made over the Establishment of the Commission of Truth
and Friendship (March 18)
Truth Known, East Timorese Need
Justice; Accountability for Rights Crimes
Remains an International Responsibility (March 9)
2004
Indonesian NGOs on Joint Truth Commission
(Dec.27)
ET NGOs to UN: Response to the Indonesian and
East Timor governments to establish a Truth and Friendship Commission
(Dec. 21)
IFET Writes UN Secretary
General on Justice (Dec. 21)
U.S. NGOs Write Indonesian President on Murder of Rights Activist Munir
(Dec. 21)
Estafeta:
Timor Still Awaits Justice
(Winter)
East Timor NGOs Urge U.S.
Congress to End Assistance to Indonesian Military & to Work for Justice &
International Tribunal (Nov 11)
La'o Hamutuk Bulletin:
October
2004: Special Panels for Serious Crimes
ETAN Urges New Indonesian
President to Pursue Justice for Victims of East Timor’s Occupation
(Oct. 19)
Senator Feingold on justice for East Timor (Oct. 6)
TL Nat'l Alliance for International
Tribunal Letter to
UN Secretary General
(Sept.)
JSMP:
Conference calls for Establishment of International
Tribunal (Sept. 27)
“Military Has Already Won”
Indonesian Election, Says ETAN,
Neither Candidate Likely to Limit
Military (Sept. 18)
ETAN Statement on Fifth
Anniversary of East Timor’s Independence Vote (August 30)
UN and U.S. Must Commit to Justice for Timor
after Indonesian Court Acquits Officer
(August 6)
JSMP:
East Timorese civil society demand the creation
of a Commission of Experts by UN
(July 19)
Congress Urges UN to Actively Pursue Justice
for East Timor; 78 Representatives Write UN
Secretary-General (July 6)
Rights Groups Urge Secretary-General to Appoint Commission on
Justice for East Timor (June 24)
ETAN
Calls on East Timor Leadership to Respect Judicial Independence; Demands UN and U.S. Create International Tribunal to Try Wiranto
and Others (May 28)
ETAN
Urges International Support for Justice and Control of Resources on Newest
Nation’s Birthday (May 20)
UN
Must Not Shortchange Justice for East Timor (May
14)
Rights Group Says
Wiranto Must Stand Trial, Not Stand for Office
(April 21)
Serious Crimes Unit:
Wiranto Brief
(March 19)
Memo to U.S. Delegation to
UN Commission on Human Rights, 60th Session (March 03)
East Timor National Alliance for an International Tribunal:
East Timorese
Political Leaders Must Not Interfere with Justice
(Feb 15)
ETAN
Praises Placement of Indonesian War Criminals on State Department Watch
List, Calls for Additional Steps to Achieve
Justice (Jan. 20)
E Timor Alliance for International Tribunal:
Statement
to the Technical Assessment Mission from UN
Headquarters, New York (January 15)
2003
Where Is the Justice? UN, U.S. Must
Break the Silence on Crimes in East Timor Since Invasion;
Impunity Encourages Violations in Indonesia, Uncertainty in East Timor
(December 7)
East Timor Alliance for International Tribunal recalls Invasion Day
(December 7)
Justice
for East Timor victims? Not in Indonesia (September
2)
Fight
Against Terror Must Include Justice for East Timor
(August 15)
ETAN:
Indonesian Court's Final East Timor Sentence "A Joke"
(August 5)
U.S. Congress Demonstrates Strong Support for Justice for East Timor
(June 27)
People of Faith
Call for International Tribunal for East Timor, Regardless of Indonesian
Court Verdicts (May 26)
IFET: Urges UN
Security Council to Create International Tribunal for East Timor (May
20)
ETAN Urges Gifts of
Justice and Fairness on Country’s First Birthday (May 18)
Estafeta: (In)Justice and the Struggle for Accountability
ETAN: UN Human Rights
Commission Abandons Justice for East Timor; Pretends Sham Indonesian
Trials Are Redeemable (April 25)
House
Members Write to Sec. Powell re: justice for Timor (April 10)
ETAN Praises New Indictment of Indonesian Officials for Crimes in E Timor
(April 9)
IFET Urges President Xanana Gusmao to Fully
Support Accountability for Past Abuses (April 1)
ET NGOs: Building Peace, Justice & Reconciliation
Nat'l Alliance for International Tribunal Letter UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights
(March 13)
ETAN: Recommendations for U.S. Delegation to UN
Commission on Human Rights, 59th Session (March 12)
ETAN: UN Must Back Prosecution of Indonesian
Officers; International Action Needed After Indonesia Snubs Extradition of
Suspects to East Timor (March 4)
Estafeta: Indonesian
Verdicts Strengthen Calls for International Tribunal (Winter
2002-2003)
JSMP/Asia Pacific Centre for Military
Law: Symposium On Justice For International Crimes Committed in The Territory of
East Timor (English
--Portuguese)*
SCU Indicts Top Indonesian Commanders
SCU: New
Indictment Charges 5 TNI Soldiers with Rape (April 10)
U.S. praises Timor rights
unit
Timor prosecutors
indict Indonesian officers for 1999 atrocities
SCU: 2nd Covalima
Indictment Charges 8 Indonesian Military Commanders & Officers (April 9)
SCU: Lolotoe Militia
Commander Sentenced To 12 Yrs (April 7)
SCU: 3 Major New indictments filed at Dili Court
(Feb. 28)
SCU: Info Release on Crimes Against Humanity Charges
(Feb. 25)
Serious Crimes Unit Update
21 February 2003
2002
ETAN: Timor Commemorates Invasion Anniversary as Indonesian Court Acquits Officials
(December 7)
ET NGOs: Nov 12 call for an international tribunal, from East Timor
(November 12)
APCET: Justice for Timor Includes Trials for The Masterminds
(November 12)
East Timor Puts U.S. Soldiers Above
the Law (November)
Indonesian Rights Activists Urge U.S. Congress To Block Military Training
(October 7)
Will Bush Do the Right Thing in East Timor?
by Aderito de Jesus Soares (August 29)
Bishop Belo: International Tribunal for Dignity of Humanity
(August 27)
ETAN “Deeply Disturbed” by East Timor’s Grant of Immunity to U.S.
Troops; U.S. Activists Say Agreement Undermines International Criminal Court
& Universal Justice (August 27) (More
on ICC & ET)
East Timor Women's Network Demands Justice (August 25)
Letter to U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Concerning
Justice for East Timor (August 23)
Letter to U.S. Ambassador
to Indonesia Concerning Justice for East Timor (August
23)
ETAN: Indonesian Verdicts Cannot
Deliver Justice for East Timor; additional
responses to first verdicts of Indonesian ad hoc tribunal
(August)
One
less place to hide: US courts bring down judgments against two Indonesian
generals (July-Sept)
SBS: East Timor - Justice Denied? new documentary by Max Stahl
(July7)
Yayasan Hak:
Independence Day:
Cause for Celebration or Damnation of 24 years of International Complicity in
the Illegal Occupation of East Timor (May 20)
Dramatic U-turn for US and Australia
(May18)
Time for a U.S. Truth Commission on East Timor
(May 17)
ETAN: Backgrounder for East Timor's May 20 Independence
Day (May 13)
Women Worldwide Call For
an International Tribunal For East Timor: Officials, Scholars And Activists
Say Justice For Crimes Against Timorese Women Needed (May 13)
Masters of
Terror: The most complete set of profiles available so far of the key
suspects in the 1999 destruction of East Timor (May 14)
UN Human Rights Commission Abandons Justice for East Timor; ETAN Calls Statement a Rotten Present for Millennium's First New Country
(4/22)
Activists Welcome Ratification Of International Criminal Court, But Say East Timor Needs Own Tribunal
(04/11)
ETAN helps form Kissinger
Watch (ongoing from March)
ETAN's
UN Press Conference with Filomena Barros dos Reis (2/26)
Attorneys and Legal Scholars Call for
International Tribunal (2/02)
2001
Congressional Letters on Santa Cruz Massacre Anniversary: House;
Senate (11/29)
Tenth Anniversary of Santa Cruz Massacre Prompts Calls for
Justice for East Timor (11/12)
Rights Must Be Factor In Economic
Assistance to Indonesia (IHRN/ETAN) (11/06)
Justice and Accountability in
East Timor: Int'l Tribunals and Other Options: Report of a one-day seminar in Dili, East Timor,
(10/16)
La'o Hamutuk Bulletin:
Focus on Justice (10/01)
NGOs Write UN on Int'l Tribunal: IFET,
East Timorese NGOs, Internationals
in East Timor; APCET,
Japan
Coalition (10/24-25/01)
Letter to UNTAET Deputy SRSG McNamara on
justice issues (10/17)
Court Issues $66 Million Judgment Against Indonesian General
Lumintang for E Timor
Violence
(10/04)
ETAN/IHRN Oppose Blanket Waiver
for Human Rights (09/27)
Statements from
September 6 Press Conference (09/06) Op-eds by ETAN members: U.S.
must not forget E Timor massacres; Tragic
Anniversary For East Timor; Indonesia
has yet to hold anyone accountable
Grassroots &
Congressional Action Mark September 6 Anniversary of East Timor Massacres
(09/04)
Rights
Groups Say Military Relations With Indonesia Hurt, Not Help (08/09)
Int'l
NGO statement on Justice for East Timor (06/13)
NGOs Write Powell for an
International Tribunal (June 6, 2001)
EXCLUSIVE:
ETAN Publishes Text of Suppressed UN
Report on 1999 Destruction (April 26, 2001)
East Timor NGO Forum on
Xanana’s Statement Regarding an International Tribunal
(April 23, 2001)
Rising from the Ashes: The Creation of a Viable Criminal Justice System in East Timor, Suzannah Linton (Melbourne University Law Review
[Vol
25, April 2001] HTML;
PDF versions
March 27-29, 2001 Hearing in Lumintang Case
ETAN's
Memo to UN Commission on Human Rights (March 10, 2001)
Open Letter from Shirley Shackleton to UN Prosecutor-General
on the 1975 murder of Balibo journalists in 1975. More info on UN
investigation and see
links
East Timor Still Awaits
Justice One Year After UN Inquiry Called for International Tribunal
(January 31, 2001) See also: TAPOL
demands international tribunal for East Timor on anniversary of UN
report.
International Crisis Group: Indonesia:
Impunity Versus Accountability For Gross Human Rights Violations
(February 2, 2001)
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telegram ordering Indonesian commanders to plan a crackdown on East
Timorese was entered into evidence in the
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2000
ETAN Urges U.S. to Support Int'l Criminal Court
(Dec. 19)
Without Reform, Jakarta's
Frail Empire Will Fall by Jose Ramos-Horta (September 17); see also: CNRT on Recent Events in West Timor;
Calls for International Tribunal, Postponement of CGI Meeting
(September 13); CNRT Leaders on West Timor
Deaths (September 8)
ETAN Calls Indonesian Suspect List
"Inadequate and a Capitulation"; Calls International
Tribunal Only Option (September 1). More
on named suspects and reactions.The International Federation for East Timor
writes U.N. Secretary-General on international tribunal (August
30)
UNTAET Report - Human Rights and the Future
of East Timor (August 2000)
Human rights and the duties of citizens - Speech
to CNRT National
Congress, Dili 21-29 August 2000
Statement
on the International Day for the Disappeared by East Timorese Human
Rights Groups
(August 30)
A Year Later, East Timor's People Are Still Waiting for Justice
by Aderito de Jesus Soares, East Timor National Jurists Association (IHT
Op-Ed, August 30)
Open
Letter to CNRT on Justice Issues by international observers to the
CNRT Congress (August 28)
Indonesian Military Wins
Impunity, statement by TAPOL see additional
coverage and statements. (August 2000)
The International Federation for East Timor
and others call for international tribunal (July
5)
ETAN, Others Urge Strongest Resolution on Timor at Human Rights
Commission (March 23)
Christian Science Monitor:
The Brutal Exit of Battalion 745
Documentary details Indonesian funding of the militia
(February 16)
U.S. and U.N. Must Support an International
Tribunal on East Timor Violence A Statement by the East Timor Action Network/U.S.
(February 2)
Indonesia's Generals on Trial in U.S. Courts
- Special section on the legal woes of General Johny Lumintang and Major-General Sintong
Panjaitan. (ongoing)
Key Links
see also news items in Timor Postings
section
see also Women and East Timor
additional material in Back Door web on War
Crimes & Crimes Against Humanity; Calls
for International Tribunal Human
Rights Alerts June- December 1998
Human
Rights Alerts 1999
(U.S. tax-deductible)
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