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DESCRIPTION:\nFilomena dos Reis: "Finding Justice for East Timor"\n\nFri Mar 15:  
 12pm-2pm, UC-Berkeley, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor\nConference \nRoom 
 (Center for Southeast Asia Studies)\n++++++++\nDIPLOMATIC DISPATCHES\nNora 
 Boustany\nWashington Post\nWednesday, March 6, 2002; Page A15\n\nTribunal 
 Sought for East Timor\n\nFilomena Barros Dos Reis worked for years as an 
 administrative assistant\n\nfor the Indonesian administration ruling the 
 annexed territory of East\nTimor, but she also led an underground life 
 investigating human rights\nabuses. She and a small group of men and women, 
 sleeping in different\nhouses every night and carrying religious materials 
 to pass themselves\noff \nas nuns and priests, risked their lives to keep 
 track of widespread\nrights \nviolations against their fellow East 
 Timorese.\n\nDos Reis was in the United States last week promoting the 
 establishment\nof \nan international tribunal to bring justice to her 
 small, war-scarred\ncountry, whose vote for independence in August 1999 
 precipitated a\nviolent \nrampage by the Indonesian military and its local 
 militia allies. Since\nthen, East Timor has been under a transitional U.N. 
 administration. It\nwill \ncelebrate its independence day on May 20.\n\nIn 
 an interview Friday, she said that several top Indonesian 
 military\nofficers would probably never be brought to justice if such a 
 court is\nnot \nestablished. The U.N. Serious Crimes Unit cannot get access 
 to the\nIndonesian military; every extradition request issued by the world 
 body\nhas \nbeen denied by the Indonesian government, she said.\n\n"The 
 Indonesian military still considers the East Timorese as animals,\nbut 
 \nour people only want justice," she said. "We wanted freedom, we had 
 to\nfight. Now we want justice and we have to fight, but I believe one 
 day,\njustice will come."\n\nU.S. and East Timorese officials are sensitive 
 about upsetting\nIndonesia, \nwhich has sought to make limited 
 improvements. But with certain militia\nleaders living in neighboring 
 western Timor under Indonesian protection,\n\nlarge numbers of refugees 
 will not be eager to return, dos Reis said.\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/5313.php
SUMMARY:Finding Justice for East Timor
LOCATION:2223 Fulton St., 6th floor\nUC Berkeley \n(two blocks from downtown Berk. 
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URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/5313.php
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