FOR almost three years, the Truth and Friendship Commission (KKP) has sought to cast light on human rights abuses that occurred in the chaos that followed the 1999 referendum in East Timor. The Commission, a joint effort of the governments of Indonesia and East Timor (now Timor Leste), has now concluded that human rights abuses did happen in the former Indonesian territory.

The KKP’s report, entitled Per Memoriam ad Spem (Through Memory Toward