Government Opts for Its Own East Timor Probe
Indonesia has vowed to investigate the military-led violence that accompanied East Timor’s vote for independence in 1999, naming members of a joint truth commission who will have the power to probe the bloodshed but not prosecute.
Victims and human rights workers decried the decision, saying the United Nations should continue to push for an international tribunal.
Nearly 1,500 people died when Indonesian troops and their proxy militias went on a killing, looting and burning spree after the East Timorese overwhelmingly voted for independence.
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