Government Report Acknowledes Indonesia's role in Timor Violence

Fri, 07/18/2008 - 13:52
  • Artist: Rebecca Henschke
  • Length: 6:01 minutes (5.51 MB)
  • Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

Ten years after massive human rights violations in East Timor, a governmental report has finally been issued. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and East Timorese counter-part Jose Ramos Horta accepted this week the findings of a joint-truth commission that indicted Indonesia's military, government and police for murders, rapes and torture in the 1999 violence. But both leaders downplayed the prospect of international prosecutions, saying the report was instead aimed at promoting friendship between the two nations. But as Rebecca Henschke reports the survivors are far from satisfied.

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