Confronting the Past

A meeting between Xanana Gusmao and SBY was canceled last week. Border issues between Indonesia and Timor Leste continue to be an obstacle.

January 31, 2006

LIKE a newly healed wound, Indonesias relationship with Timor Leste has been ripped open again. This time the trigger was Timor Lestes Acception, Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CAVR) report, which Timor Leste President Xanana Gusmao delivered to the United Nations in New York two weeks ago.

The 2,500-page report contains the findings on human rights violations between April 25, 1975 and October 25, 1999, right after the New Order regime sent

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