Subject: LUSA: Ramos Horta says Suharto should be
tried for crimes against humanity
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 07:45:45 -0500 (EST)
From: "Sharon R.A. Scharfe" <pet@web.net>15 DEZ 98 - 08:39 East
Timor/Australia: Ramos Horta says Suharto should be tried for crimes against humanity
Sydney, Dec 15 (Lusa) - Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate Jose Ramos Horta has suggested
that former Indonesian president Suharto be tried for crimes against humanity, like former
Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Ramos Horta said in Sydney on Monday that Suharto and
his "clique of general" should be tried for the "massacre of more than one
million Indonesians" in 1965 and 1966 when he came to power, and for thousands of
killings in East Timor, Irian Jaya and Aceh. Ramos Horta also said that universal
principles of human rights should be applied when trying suspects for cases similar to war
crimes and genocide.-Lusa nnnn
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