{"id":404267,"date":"2010-03-08T13:26:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T18:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"15712 at http:\/\/www.amnesty.org"},"modified":"2010-03-08T13:26:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T18:26:51","slug":"timor-leste-president-would-support-international-tribunal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/404267","title":{"rendered":"Timor-Leste President would support international tribunal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The President of Timor-Leste has told Amnesty International he would support the establishment of an international criminal tribunal for crimes committed during the 1975-1999 conflict with Indonesia, should the UN Security Council set it up.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The President of Timor-Leste has told Amnesty International he would support the establishment of an international criminal tribunal for crimes committed during the 1975-1999 occupation by Indonesia, should the UN Security Council set it up. <\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Ramos-Horta also accused the UN of “hypocrisy” for using his government’s stance on justice as a pretext for not setting up the tribunal. He said that key countries on the UN Security Council were against it, in a meeting with Amnesty International’s interim Secretary General Claudio Cordone on Friday. <\/p>\n

Amnesty International has urged the UN Security Council to set up a tribunal with jurisdiction over all crimes committed in Timor-Leste between 1975 and 1999. <\/p>\n

\u201cI welcome the President\u2019s readiness to accept an international tribunal for the crimes committed in Timor-Leste in the past,\u201d said Claudio Cordone, Amnesty International’s interim Secretary General.
 
\u201cWe again urge the UN Security Council and the Timorese and Indonesian authorities to establish such a tribunal to address the enduring impunity for the crimes against humanity and other serious human rights violations which occurred under Indonesia’s occupation of 1975-1999. <\/p>\n

Since the end of the occupation, the Timor-Leste authorities have taken measures supporting reconciliation with Indonesia at the expense of criminal prosecutions. However, President Ramos-Horta has now challenged the UN Security Council to set up the tribunal, despite his own reservations.<\/p>\n

Such a tribunal should be able to ensure justice for victims in representative cases. Victims of past human rights violations would also be provided with full and effective reparations. <\/p>\n

During the meeting with President Ramos-Horta, Amnesty International also pressed for victims to be consulted in decisions to pardon or commute sentences and for renewed efforts in establishing the fate and whereabouts of missing persons. <\/p>\n

Amnesty International also urged Timor-Leste\u2019s President to support current efforts within parliament to create a follow-up institution tasked to implement the recommendations of the reports of the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation, and of the joint Indonesia-Timor-Leste Commission for Truth and Friendship. Both Commissions looked into human rights abuses during Indonesia\u2019s occupation.<\/p>\n

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Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Timor-Leste: ‘We cry for justice\u2019: Impunity persists 10 years on in Timor-Leste<\/a> (Report, 27 August 2009)
Timor-Leste: Open letter to all members of the Security Council: The situation of justice in Timor-Leste <\/a>(23 February 2010)<\/p>\n


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