War Crimes Must Be Tried
Leaders of the East Timorese community and eminent
Australian jurists
continue to press for the perpetrators
of the terrible abuses of human
rights in East Timor to
be brought before an international war crimes
tribunal,
under the auspices of the United Nations.
To that end, the
East Timor War Crimes Committee has been formed. It
is
an association of East Timorese and Australians
committed to bringing
those responsible for the
atrocities in East Timor to justice. It is
intended that
the committee concentrate on providing financial
and
logistical support to those gathering information for
presentation to
the appropriate international
authorities.
It is intended that the Committee will
regularly inform the Indonesian
government and military
of the nature of the evidence gathered against
them as a
means of persuading them to stop their
abuses.