***Aneksasi Timtim ke dalam wilayah NKRI direncana oleh AS. E Timor tribunal 
akan telanjangi peranan AS. Indonesia tahu betul fakta ini, maka bersikap 
keras dan menantang.

***Timor Leste juga ngerti terus menjilat luka lama tidak berguna....

UN stalls E Timor tribunal plan
>From correspondents in the United Nations
July 14, 2005

THE Security Council is sitting on a United Nations expert panel's 
recommendation for an international tribunal to try Indonesian and local 
militia leaders blamed for a deadly 1999 rampage in East Timor, diplomats 
and UN officials said today.

The experts submitted their findings on May 26 to UN Secretary-General Kofi 
Annan, who transmitted their report to the 15-nation council in late June. 
Normally such a document would be officially published at that time.

But the council decided instead to delay its official release at least until 
Indonesia and East Timor had added their views, council diplomats and UN 
officials said.

Since Indonesia and East Timor's strong opposition to an international court 
is already well known, human rights activists said the council move raised 
fears it meant to suppress the report altogether.

Twelve rights groups wrote to Mr Annan on Tuesday asking him to ensure the 
report was published "as soon as possible" and its findings discussed by the 
council.


  "I have given my report to the council," Mr Annan said when asked if the 
report was being killed off.

Greek Ambassador Adamantios Vassilakis, the council president for July, 
denied the council wanted to suppress it.

"We received a report from the secretary-general which the council will 
consider and will take appropriate action at some stage," he said.

Asked why there had been no official action to date, he said council members 
did not want to disturb the current good relations between East Timor and 
Indonesia, and wanted "to see also what the implementation of that report 
requires".

Diplomats said many council members including the United States, China and 
Russia had been were wary of offending Indonesia by putting out the report 
without first seeking Jakarta's comments.

China and the United States flatly denied standing in the way of its 
publication. Russia had no immediate comment.

"This issue of justice in East Timor is incredibly embarrassing for 
Indonesia. It is very worrying that the council now may be falling in line 
behind them," said Charmain Mohamed, a researcher with New York-based Human 
Rights Watch.

"The fear is that they may be secretly working on a face-saving way forward. 
At the very least, the report should be published and all the 
recommendations publicly aired before any deal is struck," Mr Mohamed said 
in a telephone interview.

About 1500 civilians were killed, 250,000 driven from their homes and others 
raped and tortured when the Indonesian army and proxy gangs and militia 
razed much of East Timor in 1999.

The violence was triggered by a referendum in which mainly Catholic East 
Timor voted to break free from Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim 
nation, after 24 years of brutal military rule.

East Timor finally won independence in May 2002 after two-and-a-half years 
of UN administration and centuries of Portuguese colonial rule and Indonesia 
occupation.

Under international pressure, Indonesia set up a special court to hear cases 
of crimes against humanity and its attorney general indicted two government 
officials, 18 military and police officers and a gang leader but no 
high-level suspects.

Over the ensuing years, of the 18 tried, only the gang leader was convicted.

In February, Mr Annan named a panel of three outside experts to determine 
whether justice had been done, despite pleas from Indonesia and East Timor 
to leave the matter to them.

In their 149-page report, the experts said the Indonesian officials and gang 
leaders should be tried by an international tribunal if Jakarta did not 
agree to prosecute them within six months under international supervision.

The prosecutions before the Indonesian special court had been "manifestly 
deficient", they concluded, "due to a lack of commitment on the part of the 
prosecution" as well as a lack of expertise, experience and training.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15925929%255E23109,00.html




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