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Monday, January 1, 2001
Volume:
17
Issue:
1
36
Abstract:
On December 11, 2000, U.N. prosecutors in East Timor handed down the first war crime indictments relating to the violence that occurred in the aftermath of its residents voting for independence from Indonesia last year.
The indictment charges 10 members of a pro-Indonesia militia and one Indonesia army officer with crimes against humanity for their alleged role in atrocities, including the deportation of thousands of people to Indonesia-controlled western Timor and the killings of three priests and two nuns…[more]