A long battle ahead in Stockholm

Sweden will soon question Hasan Tiro and GAM's top leaders, but efforts for prosecution still face difficult hurdles.

February 24, 2004

Last Monday, two Indonesian diplomats, Ben Perkasa Drajat and Elizabeth Budiastuti, quickened their strides toward the Chief Public Prosecutor's office in Stockholm, Sweden. Accompanied by a Swedish lawyer, Anders Karlstrom, they entered the office of the Chief Public Prosecutor, Tomas Lindstrand and on Lindstrand's table sat a thick pile of documents amounting to almost 1,500 pages. Their contents: proof of crimes committed by the head of the

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