New rights office gets 100 clients

New rights office gets 100 clients

DILI, East Timor: Only a day after it was opened, the Dili
office of the National Commission on Human Rights is already
swamped with grievances.

Antara reported that the office received complaints yesterday
from 100 former soldiers of the Portuguese military who claimed
the government had failed to keep its promise to recruit them as
civil servants.

The office, opened on Tuesday in an effort to help dispel bad
publicity about Indonesia's human rights record in the province,
is headed by former prosecutor Ale Refialy. (swe)