Indonesia-East Timor truth commission convenes for initial meeting
The truth commission established by Indonesia and East Timor to investigate the 1999 violence in East Timor that left 1,400 dead met for the first time on Thursday. The commission was set up earlier this...
Indonesia Monday announced the membership of a 10-member Truth and Friendship Commission formed to investigate the 1999 violence in East Timor that left around 1,400 dead. Half will hail from Indonesia with the other half coming from...
Parental rights revoked after French child prostitution trial
A French court Friday revoked the parental rights of eight individuals convicted for running a child prostitution ring earlier this week. Sixty-two men and women were convicted for offering forty-five children, ranging in age from six months...
According to two US anti-terrorism officials involved in the arrest, Zambian officials have detained Haroon Rashid Aswat, wanted in the US for allegedly attempting to establish an al-Qaeda training camp in Oregon in 1999, and...
Report to the Secretary-General of the Commission of Experts to Review the Prosecution of Serious Violations of Human Rights in Timor-Leste (then East Timor) in 1999, United Nations, released July 27, 2005 [reporting that Indoeasian officials and gang leaders should...
Indonesia continues opposition to 'unnecessary' East Timor tribunal
Indonesia Thursday continued to characterize an international tribunal for the 1999 East Timor violence as "unnecessary" despite a UN report formally released Wednesday that called for international oversight . Rights groups have...
Ahmed Ressam , known as the "millennium bomber" for plotting to blow up Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve 1999 , was sentenced to 22 years in prison by federal judge John Coughenour Wednesday. US...
East Timor and Indonesia have set up a joint truth commission, to open August 1 2005, to address human rights violations that occurred during a 1999 rampage in East Timor [Human Rights Watch...
UPDATE ~ UN Security Council puts East Timor tribunal report on hold
Despite calls for urgent action by advocacy groups and a UN panel recommendation, UN officials indicated Wednesday that the UN Security Council was moving slowly on the establishment of a tribunal in investigate the East Timor violence...
Rights groups urge Annan to back tribunal for East Timor atrocities
Human rights groups including the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network and Human Rights Watch have urged UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to support a UN panel's recommendation for an international...
