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DATE=9/1/2000
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=TIMOR LIST (L)
NUMBER=2-266041
BYLINE=PATRICIA NUNAN
DATELINE=JAKARTA
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: Indonesia's Attorney General's office has 
released a list of 19 suspects in the investigation 
into the violence that ravaged East Timor one year 
ago. Three of the suspects are army generals. But as 
Patricia Nunan reports from Jakarta, some senior 
officers accused by human rights groups of 
orchestrating the violence are missing from the list.
TEXT: /// ACT: NAMES BEING READ ALOUD ///
Chief investigator Abdul Rachman read aloud the list 
of 19 suspects named in the investigation.
The three highest-ranking officials included were 
Major General Adam Damiri, a regional military 
commander at the time, and Brigadier Generals Tono 
Suratman and Timbul Silaen -- both of whom were based 
in East Timor. 
But noticeably absent from the list was the Minister 
of Defense and Head of the Armed Forces at the time, 
General Wiranto.  
Earlier this year, government human rights 
investigators charged that General Wiranto was 
"morally responsible" for failing to do more to 
prevent anti-independence militia groups from seizing 
control of East Timor after the territory voted for 
independence from Indonesia. Hundreds of people were 
killed and much of the territory was destroyed during 
two-weeks of terror led by militia members.
International human rights groups say General Wiranto 
played a role in orchestrating the militia violence. 
General Wiranto admitted that some lower-ranking 
members of Indonesia's military backed the militias, 
but denied that the army command actively supported 
the violence. 
Abdul Rachman, head of the East Timor investigation 
team for Indonesia's Attorney General's office, says 
the case remains open. 
/// RACHMAN ACT IN INDONESIAN, EST. FADE ///
Mr. Rachmans says, "We have not ruled out the 
possibility of announcing new suspects later." 
Indonesia's Attorney General's office listed five 
priority cases in the investigation into the bloodshed 
in East Timor. Two are alleged massacres at churches 
in the cities of Suai and Liquisa as well as the 
attack on the home of East Timor's spiritual leader 
and Nobel Laureate Bishop Carlos Belo.  Also on the 
list are an attack on the home of an independence 
leader and the murder of a Dutch journalist.
Eleven other mid-level military and police officers 
were also named as suspects in the investigation, 
along with two local government officials and three 
members of anti-independence militia groups. 
The United Nations has in the past warned Indonesia to 
bring those responsible for the violence to justice -- 
or at least to accept the assistance of international 
investigators for the formation of a human rights 
tribunal for East Timor. 
Top Indonesian officials say they do not want the 
international community to interfere in what they say 
are the country's internal affairs.(Signed)
NEB/HK/PN/GC/PFH 
01-Sep-2000 04:28 AM EDT (01-Sep-2000 0828 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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