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Under strong international pressure, the Government of Indonesia had eventually agreed to establish a legal framework for the prosecution and trial of the gross human rights violations that had been committed in East Timor in 1999. 18 suspects were put on trial before Ad-Hoc Human Rights Courts in Jakarta. Most of the defendants have been acquitted. Those few who have been convicted have been handed down minimum or even sub-minimum sentences.

Watch Indonesia! felt the need to initiate a trial observation and, in cooperation with the German Commission Justitia et Pax, Misereor, missio Aachen and the Human Rights Desk of Diakonia, the Social Services Agency of the Protestant Church in Germany, to commission a legal opinion. With Attorney at Law Bernd Häusler, Vice President of the Berlin Bar Association and its Human Rights
Commissioner, an experienced trial lawyer could be engaged for this task. In his legal opinion Häusler examines the proceedings and the legal context in which they take place, puts the trials into international perspective and, against this background, presents an evaluation. The guiding question is: "Are the international standards met by the criminal proceedings regarding the events
in East Timor in 1999, which were instituted before the Human Rights Court in Jakarta in March 2002 or are the same only 'mock trials', in order to avoid an ad-hoc tribunal as threatened by the international community?"

English translation of: Gerechtigkeit für die Opfer. Eine juristische Untersuchung der indonesischen Menschenrechtsverfahren zu den Verbrechen auf Osttimor im Jahr 1999, Schriftenreihe Gerechtigkeit und Frieden (Series Justice and Peace) - No. 98, ed. by German Commission Justitia et Pax, Bonn, April 2003

Responsible for the edition of the English version: Watch Indonesia! Berlin, March 2004

A printed German version is for the price of ? 6 available at: Deutsche Kommission Justitia et Pax, Kaiser-Friedrich-Str. 9, 53113 Bonn, Phone: ++49-228-103217, Fax: ++49-228-103318, e-mail: justitia-et-pax-deutschland@dbk.de

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Contents:

Introduction: Justice for the Victims
Alexander Flor, Monika Schlicher, Petra Stockmann (Watch Indonesia!)

Legal Opinion
Bernd Häusler

Appendix 1A Map of East Timor
Appendix 1B The New York Agreement of May 5 th , 1999
Part 1: Agreement Between the Republic of Indonesia
and the Portuguese Republic on the Question of East
Timor
Part 2: East Timor Popular Consultation Agreement
Regarding Security
Appendix 1C KPP-HAM: Executive Summary Report on the investi-gation
of human rights violations in East Timor
Appendix 2A Republic of Indonesia, Law No. 26 of 2000 concerning
Human Rights Courts
Appendix 3A Indictment 02/Ham/Tim-Tim/02/2002
./. Abilio Jose Osorio Soares
Appendix 3B Indictment 01/Ham/Tim-Tim/02/2002
./. Drs. M.Timbul Silaen
Appendix 3C Indictment 03/Ham/Tim-Tim/02/2002
./. Herman Sedyono, Liliek Koeshadianto, Drs Gatot
Subiyaktoro, Achmad Syamsudin, Sugito
Appendix 4A Mitschrift über die Hauptverhandlung gegen Timbul
Silaen am 02.05.2002 (in German)
Appendix 4B Mitschrift über die Hauptverhandlung gegen die fünf
Angeklagten Herman Sedyono et al. am 07.05.2002 (in
German)
Appendix 4C Mitschrift über die Hauptverhandlung gegen Jose Abilio
Osorio Soares am 08.05.2002 (in German)
Appendix 5A List of abbreviations and acronyms (in German)