---------------------------------------------------------- FREE Subscribe/UNsubscribe Indonesia Daily News Online go to: http://www.indo-news.com/subscribe.html - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - Please Visit Our Sponsor http://www.indo-news.com/cgi-bin/ads1 -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 Free Email @KotakPos.com visit: http://my.kotakpos.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------- E TIMOR RIGHTS ABUSES PROBE TEAM URGED TO MAKE INDEPENDENT REPORT Jakarta, Jan 26 (ANTARA) - The Commission Investigating Human Rights Abuses in East Timor (KPP HAM) was Wednesday urged not to base its probe merely on leakages from the report the UN is compiling on the same subject. "It would be alright if the commission's and the UN's reports complemented each other. But they should not try to get leakages from another and later merely compare their reports," sad Prof Muladi, a consultant to be team of attorneys defending a number of a senior Indonesia military officers alleged to bear responsibility for human rights abuses that happened in East Timor following the UN-administered August 30 ballot. Muladi, who had just arrived from a four-day visit to East Timor to collect more evidence in the field, said he hope the results of KPP HAM's investigation would be really independent and not be based on the report currently being prepared by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. The former Justice Minister said KPP HAM's final report should be in keeping with the authentication system prescribe in the existing procedural law and not be made based on "hear-say evidence". In other words, the report should fully conform to universally accepted principles of procedural law, he said. On the other hand, Muladi also urged the Indonesian military officers concerned to tell all the facts they know without concealing anything while their defence attorney's team lead by Adnan Buyung Nasution continued its efforts to collect objective proof in the field. "Everything that has happened should be disclosure and then we will make various studies from the viewpoints of both national and international laws. We must also use international law lest we will be accused of partisanship or lack of independence," he said. A perceived inability to be independent on Indonesia's part could prompt the international community to press the UN to set up an international tribunal, and if this happened, Indonesia's image in the world suffer, Muladi said. Even so, Muladi said, he assumed that his clients, most of whom were militarymen, were used to having to prepare themselves for the worst. "Like it or not, they (the military officers) must be ready for the eventually of having to face an international tribunal, and for this purpose, they must take anticipate steps," Muladi said. (T.PTU-11/RSI-03/20:30/INT-AJM-23:00/RSI-03/TB03) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 31 Jan 2000 jam 09:54:11 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
