Human Rights Watch News Releases, AsiaNews releases from Human Rights Watch on AsiaEast Timor: Reject Pardon for Most Serious Crimes- May 8, 2004 East Timor's Parliament should exclude serious human rights crimes from a general amnesty law now under consideration, Human Rights Watch said today. The law could undermine the work of Timorese and international bodies investigating and prosecuting the grave abuses that took place in East Timor during the country's 1999 referendum on independence from Indonesia.http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/05/08/eastti8563.htm |