2. International Tribunal for East Timor

This AGM,

Concerned by the lack of political will on the part of the Indonesian Government and in particular the Indonesian military, to ensure that all Indonesian personnel responsible for crimes against humanity in East Timor before, during and after the referendum in East Timor in August 1999, and more generally during the 24 years of Indonesia’s illegal occupation of East Timor,

Concerned that the human rights trials currently taking place in Jakarta cannot be expected to ensure full exposure of these crimes against humanity and the role of the Indonesian armed forces, acting directly and through their proxies, the militias, in instigating massacres and killings, the forced deportation of 250,000 East Timorese to West Timor, and the unrestrained and massive destruction of East Timorese towns and villages in the wake of the referendum in which the East Timorese voted overwhelmingly for independence from Indonesia

Calls on the British Government and the European Union,

To press the United Nations Security Council to take action for the creation of an International Tribunal on East Timor, as proposed by the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Investigation Commission set up in 1999 by the UN Secretary General.

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