International Court for perpetrators who engaged in forcibly disappearing combatants
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MOVIMENTU UNIVERSITÁRU BUKA EMA LAKON FORSADAMENTE DURANTE OKUPASAUN INDONESIA
(MUBELFOI)

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International Court for perpetrators who engaged
in forcibly disappearing combatants

 

The Timor-Leste government should not try to deceive the people by saying that we must strengthen relations with Indonesia, as so we cannot hold the perpetrators to account through judicial processes. This is because we firmly believe that both nations can only strengthen their diplomatic relations and live peacefully if the road to justice is not closed to the people of Timor-Leste.


Timor-Leste has had its independence restored for eleven (11) years now and still people are waiting to know the whereabouts of the persons, who were forcibly disappeared during the illegal Indonesian occupation. During its illegal occupation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia systematically committed inhuman and degrading acts, and an unknown number of persons were forcibly disappeared during the armed conflict; all of which clearly violated the Geneva Conventions and Humanitarian Law, which Indonesia had ratified before invading Timor-Leste. The Invasion took place when the International Community insists the decolonization process which as the same time Timor-Leste in its transition to be as an independent country.

On 20th August 2013, Timor-Leste commemorates the historical day of FALINTIL (The Armed Forces for the National Liberation of Timor-Leste) and, at the same time, realizing the 3rd phase of the demobilization of FALINTIL held in Betano-Same. FALINTIL accepted and succeeded in its mission, as a protector to the people and the country, during the illegal Indonesian occupation. Yet, in the process of the struggle our independence, many combatants sacrificed their lives and were killed in many ways: some died in the line of fire, some were captured by the enemy and subjected to torture, and various other violations of human rights by the cruel regime of Suharto, these acts clearly against the principal of Universal Declaration of Human Rights and related International Instruments.

In 1997, Commander David Alex (DAITULA) was captured in the district of Baucau, and seriously injured by Indonesian military. Until today, the whereabouts of DAITULA remains unclear; since the independence of Timor-Leste, Indonesia has not provided information as to his whereabouts.

 
David Alex.  

Therefore, we, as the new generation of this land, want to ask of our leaders from Timor-Leste and Indonesia as follows:

a) Ask that the Government of Timor-Leste to diplomatically ask the Government of Indonesia to inform the people of Timor-Leste and the International Community as to the whereabouts of Commander DAITULA, as well as to publicly inform the people of Timor-Leste as to the whereabouts of others figures as: Vicente Reis (SAHE), Lick Uagae, Mauhudu Ran Kadadak, Rodak, Sabalae and the innumerable persons, who were forcibly disappeared during the Indonesian occupation.

b) Ask that the Head of State of Timor-Leste, Taur Matan Ruak, and Government of Timor-Leste, led by Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmão, do not try to deceive the people by saying that we must strengthen relations with Indonesia, as so we cannot hold the perpetrators to account through judicial processes. This is because we firmly believe that both nations can only strengthen their diplomatic relations and live peacefully if the road to justice is not closed to the people of Timor-Leste.

c) We, with a strong voice, ask to United Nations and International Community to remember that the Chapter of United Nations, all related International Conventions on Human Rights, and the reports of gross human rights violations in Timor-Leste all recommended the creation of an International Court to bring the perpetrators to the justice, to end impunity in the future and to strengthen the values of democracy and the rule of law.

d) We call for the solidarity from the associations of Combatants and Veterans throughout the country to more pro-actively advocate for your companions, with whom you fought during the struggle for independence and whose whereabouts remain unknown.

e) We call all institutions which work in the area of justice (students and youth associations, religious organisations, international and national human rights activists, the families of heroes and the people of Timor-Leste) to unite together and firmly advocate for an end to impunity in Timor-Leste.

IN TRUTH FOR DAVID ALEX (DAITULA), VICENTE REIS (SAHE), CLIK UAGAE, MAUHUDU RAN CADALAC, RODAK, SABALAE, REMIGIO AND THE OTHERS MISSING.

Dili, UNTL 19/08/2013

Maria Arancha Ana Castelo
Spokeswoman
 

see also Human Rights & Justice page


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