A-N-T-I
The Timor-Leste National Alliance for an
International Tribunal
Secretariat; Asosiasaun HAK
Rua Gov. Serpa Rosa
T-091, Faról, Dili, Timor-Leste
Landline/Mobile: +670-3321040 or
+67077289241 or 77367518 /
77179655/77402231
E-mail:
lanarra.del@gmail.com,
atino@laohamutuk.org,
moniz@jsmp.minihub.org
Website:
www.laohamutuk.org/www.jsmp.tl/www.haktl.org.
Welcome
to Timor-Leste SBY!
“Don’t wash your hands of the Crimes
Against Humanity that occurred between
1975-1999 in Timor-Leste”
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Banner at La'o Hamutuk office in
Dili call for Justice for Crimes
Against Humanity in
Timor-Leste>
during the illegal occupation
between 1975-1999.
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Banner at La'o Hamutuk office in
Dili call for Justice for Crimes
Against Humanity in Timor-Leste
during the illegal occupation
between 1975-1999. |
According to
official information from the
Timor-Leste Government webpage, in
response to an invitation from the
Timor-Leste government, the President of
Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY)
will visit Timor-Leste between 26-27
August 2014. During this visit the
President might hold discussions with
Timorese leaders about border issues,
the Indonesian military heroes’ cemetery
and the Timorese leaders that were
disappeared, taken or even killed by the
Indonesian military, as published by the
online media at: (http://www.timorhauniandoben.com/2014/07/vizita-ultimu-sby-posiblidade-hatudu.html).
In relation to the
visit of SBY, ANTI would like to say
“Welcome” and also tell the public about
the involvement of SBY under the Suharto
“New Order” regime. As the public is
aware, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was a
military commander who also took part in
the illegal occupation, murder and
suffering imposed on the people of
Timor-Leste for 24 years. During this
illegal occupation the Indonesian
military was involved in systematic and
planned crimes against humanity in
Timor-Leste. According to the
“Chega…!”
report, the Indonesian
military was involved in acts of murder
and enforced disappearances with the
support of the international community.
Civilians died in a
number of different ways; some were
bombed, some were tortured, abducted or
died from famine because they did not
have the freedom to develop their own
economic activities.
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This shows that SBY and the
Indonesian government do not have
good will and they have continued to
impede the judicial process for
crimes against humanity.
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After Timor-Leste
separated from Indonesia, the United
Nations (UN) established a Serious
Crimes Unit and a Special Investigative
Unit to investigate, prosecute and try
those perpetrators involved in crimes
against humanity in 1999 (not including
crimes against humanity that occurred
between 1975-1999). The findings of
these two justice mechanisms proved that
the ad-hoc trials in Jakarta for
perpetrators of crimes against humanity
was merely an effort to wash their
hands, and not a pure judicial process
intended to uphold the interests of
justice. This trial process was under
pressure from the Indonesian
authorities, and Indonesia did not
display good cooperation with this
process.
The UN established
a
Commission of Inquiry to evaluate
the work of the serious crimes process
in Indonesia and Timor-Leste. All of the
commissions recommended that the UN
needed to take a concrete step to
establish an International Tribunal for
serious crimes, in the event that the
Indonesian government continues to
impede the administration of a fair
legal process. However, until now the
international community and the UN have
not yet taken this step to find a
solution to serious crimes that occurred
during the aforementioned period of
illegal occupation. In response to
demands to establish an international
tribunal, the Indonesian government
requested to establish an ad-hoc court
with the aim of trying the perpetrators
of crimes against humanity.
As the Indonesian
President for two successive mandates,
SBY has failed to find a solution to
those cases involving crimes against
humanity. SBY has failed to apply the
recommendations from all of the reports
and has failed to establish a national
commission to find Timorese children
that went missing during the occupation,
as stated in the report from the TL-RI
Commission of Truth and Friendship
(CTF). This shows that SBY and the
Indonesian government do not have good
will and they have continued to impede
the judicial process for crimes against
humanity.
The victims and all
of those who are seeking justice for
crimes against humanity continue to
demand for the Indonesian government,
Timor-Leste government and the
international community to implement the
recommendations of the
Chega…!
report, from the Commission for
Truth and Friendship, the
UN
Commission of Inquiry, and in
particular the recommendation on how to
break impunity by trying the
perpetrators of crimes against humanity
through a fair and credible
International Tribunal.
The survivors have
also demanded for the powerful nations
such as the United States, England,
Australia and all of those countries
that benefited from this occupation, to
support and encourage this process in
order to break impunity and find a
solution to give justice to the people
of Timor-Leste.
In addition, ANTI
also demands for the governments of
Timor-Leste and Indonesia to demonstrate
the political will to find a solution
for crimes against humanity that
occurred during the occupation,
including the establishment of a
national committee to find those who
were forcedly disappeared, including
Timorese children. The report from the
UN Special Inquiry mentioned that all
mechanisms supported by the UN have poor
accountability, therefore it recommended
for the UN Security Council to establish
an International court that is fair and
credible.
The facts are
that these crimes against humanity have
continued until now:
ANTI hopes that
all of the parties mentioned in this
statement can accept our stance.
For information
about serious crimes and crimes against
humanity, please refer to the following:
http://www.laohamutuk.org/Justice/JusticeIndex.html#InternationalCrimes,
http://www.haktl.org/ami-nia-programa/direitu-ba-justisa-krimi-pasadu/
Dili, 22 August 2014
Sisto dos Santo
Coordinator of the ANTI Board
