Give RI a 'bit more time'<\/p>\n
GENEVA (AFP): Indonesia should be given \"a bit more time\" to
\ntake judicial action against people suspected of involvement in
\nlast year's atrocities in East Timor after its vote for
\nindependence, the UN official running East Timor, Sergio Vieira
\nde Mello, said here on Friday.<\/p>\n
De Mello, in Geneva for a five-day visit, told a news briefing
\nthat what needed to be determined now was whether the files of 22
\nsuspects named by the Indonesian attorney general's office in
\nearly September would be passed on to the courts.<\/p>\n
\"We're reaching a point where we can make a determination as
\nto whether the Indonesian judiciary is or is not acting on these
\ncases,\" he told reporters.<\/p>\n
\"So let's give them a bit more time,\" he added.
\nDe Mello also referred to the arrest of former East Timorese
\nmilitia leader Eurico Guterres and \"practical steps\" by the army
\nand police to disarm militia as \"positive signs\".<\/p>\n
Pro-Indonesian militias went on a rampage of killings and
\ndestruction after the ballot result of August 1999, forcing some
\n300,000 people to flee into Indonesian-controlled West Timor.<\/p>",
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