UN rights chief visits E. Timor

UN rights chief visits E. Timor

EAST TIMOR: The top UN human rights official on Saturday visited the scene of a church massacre in East Timor in 1999, as local residents demonstrated for a special war crimes tribunal to prosecute the Indonesian officers allegedly responsible for the killings.

On a three-day visit to East Timor, Mary Robinson again voiced criticism over last week's acquittal of six Indonesian officers charged with allowing the Suai massacre and four others in 1999 after the half-island voted to break from Indonesia in a UN- sponsored referendum.

"They have failed to carry out justice for those responsible for crimes against humanity in 1999," Robinson said outside the Ave Maria Church where twenty-seven people were killed, including three priests.

In the past, Dili has said it trusted Indonesian courts would deliver justice to those accused of inciting the violence. --AP