Team to push UN on May shootings<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: A rights group has urged the United Nations to
\npressure the Indonesian government to start the trial of military
\nand police officers allegedly involved in the May 1998 shooting
\nof students in Jakarta.<\/p>\n
The May 12 1998 case completion team said it had sent
\ndelegates to the UN Commission on Human Rights annual meeting in
\nGeneva, which is currently in process and will end on April 23.<\/p>\n
The team said international pressure was crucial because the
\ngovernment had no political will to pursue the case as a human
\nrights violation, in which four Trisakti University students were
\nshot dead by police officers during a rally in their campus
\nagainst then president Soeharto.<\/p>\n
The group also plans to work with and solicit support from
\nEuropean countries to push for a human rights tribunal for the
\nperpetrators of the incident.<\/p>\n
The Attorney General's Office has returned case files of the
\nincident to the National Commission on Human Rights, saying it
\ndid not find any elements of gross human rights abuses in the
\nincident. --JP<\/p>",
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