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