Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo has called to East Timor's political leaders and the international community to begin moves to establish an international court to try those responsible for the violence in Timor in 1999.

In a note sent to Lusa Monday, Bishop Belo says that the recent trials and acquittals in Jakarta of Indonesian security officers have not brought justice against those responsible for the deadly wave of violence unleashed in Timor before and after the independence ballot of August 30, 1999.

"We call to the international community, in this case the UN Security Council, to take the necessary steps to create an international tribunal", said Belo, a 1996 Nobel Peace laureate.

Evidence from witnesses and facts uncovered by an Indonesian inquiry commission, as well as the UN's own international inquiry, was not used by the recent special human rights court in Jakarta, Belo said.

The UN inquiry's findings were presented to the security Council, Belo said, and found Indonesia responsible for the violence of 1999 and likewise responsible for guaranteeing trials of its officials.

Timor's leaders should speak with "one voice" in their demands for the setting up of an international criminal court, said Bishop Belo.