Panel presents report on RI rule

Panel presents report on RI rule

EAST TIMOR: A United Nations-sanctioned panel investigating human
rights violations during Indonesia's bloody 24-year occupation of
East Timor on Monday presented its findings to the country's
president.

The report, which is likely to be scathingly critical of
Indonesian rule, will not be made public until Nov. 28, when
President Xanana Gusmao will formally submit it to parliament and
to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

"The final report addresses a significant portion of the
history of our people," said Aniceto Guterres, who headed the
Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation set up by the
United Nations in 2001 while the world body was still governing
the half-island territory.

Jakarta has refused to deliver officials responsible for the
bloodshed to a court in East Timor, and the panel's findings are
likely to result in intensified calls for the Indonesians to be
tried by an international war crimes tribunal like those for
Rwanda or the former Yugoslavia.

"If history is a description of deeds, this report is about
acts perpetrated in violation of human rights," Guterres said. --
AP