A Trial to Exonerate
Tuesday, March 19, 2002
A former governor and a former regional police chief of East Timor are standing trial in Jakarta for alleged human rights violations. The opening session proceeded lustrously, yet ominously.
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Like a model on a catwalk, the Indonesian court system is parading to try to win the sympathy of spectators, in this case the international community. Last Thursday it drew considerable attention because, for the first time ever, it staged a trial of human rights violations. The occasion was the opening session of an ad hoc court to try human rights violations in East Timor at the Central Jakarta District Court. Next to ordinary spectators, t
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