Ellen Nakashima, Jakarta – On a recent day in a weathered courthouse in Jakarta sat defendant Tono Suratman, an army brigadier general accused of failing to prevent two massacres in Eas
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April 6, 2003
Washington Post - April 6, 2003
April 5, 2003
Agence France Presse - April 5, 2003
Jakarta – United Nations peacekeepers have arrested two former East Timorese militiamen for alleged involvement in crimes against humanity during East Timor's bloody breakaway from Jaka
April 4, 2003
Associated Press - April 4, 2003
Dili – An East Timorese court on Saturday sentenced a senior militia leader to 12 years in prison for crimes against humanity committed during the country's bloody break from Indonesia
April 3, 2003
Jakarta Post - April 3, 2003
Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights declared on Tuesday that gross human rights violations had occurred during massive riots in Jakarta in May 1998, which p
Kompas - April 3, 2003
The National Human Rights Commission, Komnas HAM has called on the government to explain what has happened to information or intelligence reports about persons deemed to be political en
April 1, 2003
Radio Australia - April 1, 2003
The United States State Department says serious human rights abuses occured in Indonesia last year.
Jakarta Post - April 1, 2003
Jakarta – The Central Jakarta District Court sentenced six members of the Betawi Brotherhood Forum (FBR) on Monday to six months in jail for an attack on the offices of the National Com
March 31, 2003
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor - March 31, 2003
East Timor became a fully independent republic on May 20, following approximately 2½ years under the authority of the U.N. Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET).
March 28, 2003
Jakarta Post - March 28, 2003
Jakarta – The South Jakarta district court decided that there was enough grounds to proceed with the lawsuit filed by Golkar chairman Akbar Tandjung against Rakyat Merdeka daily's chief
Radio Australia - March 28, 2003
Amnesty International says two human rights activists in Indonesia's Aceh province are believed to be being held by the military and could face torture or death.
March 26, 2003
Straits Times - March 26, 2003
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – A new Bill is set to unravel a dark side of Indonesian history, allowing cases of human-rights violations to be reopened for the sake of national reconciliation
Radio Australia - March 26, 2003
East Timor's Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation has been up and running for over three months now and has accepted over 100 minor political criminals back into their vil
March 24, 2003
Time Magazine - March 24, 2003
Lisa Clausen – The young boy returned to the mountain village of Letefoho in fear and disgrace.
March 19, 2003
Joint Statement - March 19, 2003
The acknowledgement by Freeport McMoran (partly owned by Rio Tinto, the world's largest mining transnational) that it pays money to the armed forces (TNI) for security in its area of op
March 17, 2003
Associated Press - March 17, 2003
Jakarta – Prosecutors plan to soon appeal a string of verdicts acquitting Indonesian police and military officers accused over the violence that swept East Timor during its break from I
March 13, 2003
Australian Financial Review - March 13, 2003
Andrew Burrell, Jakarta – A senior Indonesian military officer convicted yesterday over the bloodshed in East Timor in 1999 will remain free, despite being sentenced to five years jail
Straits Times - March 13, 2003
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia's human rights tribunal yesterday convicted Brigadier-General Noer Muis, a former military chief in then-East Timor, of crimes against humanity committed
South China Morning Post - March 13, 2003
Chris McCall – In the mist of East Timor's central mountains, Florindo Soares explains why he helped kill his neighbour's brother 25 years ago.
March 12, 2003
The Guardian (UK) - March 12, 2003
Terry MacAlister – United Kingdom BP has been warned by a panel of experts led by the US senator, George Mitchell, that it could trigger human rights abuses if it proceeds with a $2bn g
March 6, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald - March 6, 2003
The formal indictment of Indonesia's former armed forces chief, retired General Wiranto, and seven of his senior military officers for war crimes in East Timor is no watershed in the qu
Associated Press - March 6, 2003
Jakarta – A top Indonesian Cabinet minister warned East Timor not to press ahead with the prosecutions of several Indonesian generals for alleged crimes committed during the former prov
Jakarta Post - March 6, 2003
Kurniawan Hari and Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The recent indictment of several Indonesian military officers in East Timor shows that the international community has no trust in
March 5, 2003
Lusa - March 5, 2003
Washington – A US rights group has urged Washington and the United Nations to press Jakarta to colaborate with East Timor in trying Indonesian officials accused of crimes against humani
March 3, 2003
Reuters - March 3, 2003
Jakarta – The East Timor government on Monday sought to distance itself from indictments issued against a former Indonesian armed forces chief over violence that ravaged the tiny territ
Detik.com - March 3, 2003
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March 1, 2003
Jakarta Post - March 1, 2003
Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Denpasar – East Timor President Xanana Gusmao voiced disappointment over the court's issuance of dozens of indictments of senior Indonesian officials for serious c
Straits Times - March 1, 2003
Dili – Timor Leste prosecutors charged more than 50 people, including a former police chief and a militia boss, with crimes against humanity yesterday over violence surrounding a 1999 v
February 28, 2003
Reuters - February 28, 2003
Dili – East Timor prosecutors charged more than 50 people on Friday, including a former police chief and a militia boss, with crimes against humanity over violence surrounding a 1999 vo
February 27, 2003
Jakarta Post - February 27, 2003
The failure of Indonesia's rights tribunal to bow to international demands for the prosecution of the alleged perpetrators of human rights abuses in East Timor has prompted the indictme
Jakarta Post - February 27, 2003
Nug Katjasungkana, Contributor, Dili – On Tuesday, the Dili-based Office of the Prosecutor General of Timor Leste issued an indictment of former military commander Gen.
February 26, 2003
Agence France Presse - February 26, 2003
The international rights group Human Rights Watch called on Indonesia to turn over for trial its officials accused of organizing atrocities committed in East Timor in 1999.
Sydney Morning Herald - February 26, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Darwin and Tom Allard, Canberra – United Nations prosecutors have charged the former Indonesian defence chief General Wiranto with crimes against humanity for his role in
February 25, 2003
Jakarta Post - February 25, 2003
Jakarta – The United Nations on Tuesday indictedthe former armed forces chief Gen.
Jakarta Post - February 25, 2003
Jakarta – Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said Tuesday Indonesia would ignore UN indictments of former armed forces chief Gen.(ret) Wiranto along with six other generals for crimes aga
Radio Australia - February 25, 2003
The United Nations Serious Crimes Unit has indicted General Wiranto, the former governor of East Timor, Abilio Soares and six other senior military officers, for murder and persecution
February 19, 2003
Jakarta Post - February 19, 2003
Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Noted religious leaders grouped in the National Moral Movement (GMN) called on the government to halt the East Timor human rights trials, claiming that they wer
February 17, 2003
Agence France Presse - February 17, 2003
Jakarta – A former Indonesian military chief for East Timor said Monday he tried to prevent massacres in East Timor in September 1999 and that none of his own men were involved.
February 15, 2003
Jakarta Post - February 15, 2003
Zakki Hakim, Jakarta – A coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will use the occasion of the annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) in Genev
Melbourne Age - February 15, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – A small group of East Timorese ex-prisoners listens, transfixed, to the text of the UN's 1987 Convention on Torture.
February 13, 2003
Agence France Presse - February 13, 2003
Jakarta – Former Indonesian military chief General Wiranto on Thursday defended his record over East Timor's bloody 1999 breakaway from Jakarta, saying he had helped prevent a civil war
February 6, 2003
Radio Australia - February 6, 2003
The UN Special Crimes Unit in East Timor has charged former militia commander, Joao Tavares, and four Indonesian TNI, or military, officers for atrocities in the territory before and af
February 5, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald - February 5, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – United Nations investigators have indicted ageing militia chieftain Joao Tavares and two senior Indonesian officers for crimes against humanity committed in the Ma
Reuters - February 5, 2003
Jakrta – Indonesian prosecutors demanded on Wednesday that the former military chief in East Timor be jailed for 10 years for failing to halt massacres when the territory voted to split
February 4, 2003
Jakarta Post - February 4, 2003
Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – With the signing on December ember 9, 2002 of the cessation of hostilities agreement between Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), the Acehnese people be
Jakarta Post - February 4, 2003
Tiarma Siboro, Lhokseumawe – Compensation money is often given in exchange for a loss of property or a relative, but it cannot bring back a loved one, or in many cases, compensate for t
Associated Press - February 4, 2003
Jakarta – The UN on Tuesday indicted 32 people- including 15 Indonesian soldiers – for murdering and torturing East Timorese during the country's bloody break with Indonesia in 1999.
February 1, 2003
Human Rights Watch - February 2003
January 31, 2003
Radio Australia - January 31, 2003
Investigators in Indonesia have begun the first formal probe into mass killings that took place more than three decades ago.
January 29, 2003
Jakarta Post - January 29, 2003
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January 28, 2003
Agence France Presse - January 28, 2003
Indonesian state human rights investigators have begun a wide-ranging probe of violations committed during the long dictatorship of former president Suharto.