Amnesty Intl. to highlight execution, torture in RI

Amnesty Intl. to highlight execution, torture in RI

GENEVA (AFP): Arbitrary executions and arrests, torture and poor treatment have continued in Indonesia, Amnesty International alleged, while adding that governmental reforms are moving too slowly.

When the United Nations Human Rights Commission begins its annual session on Monday in Geneva, Amnesty has pledged to highlight alleged human rights abuses in Indonesia.

Amnesty said the abuses are worst in Aceh and Irian Jaya, where separatist movements have caused violence.

Amnesty will ask the Commission to send investigators to look into torture and extrajudiciary executions in the two provinces.

The human rights organization is also lobbying the Commission to establish an international penal court to judge those accused of human rights abuses in East Timor both before and after the August 1999 ballot.