Soeharto Abuse Investigation Imminent

By Barrie | January 30th, 2008 | No Comments

The Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights will soon complete a study on human rights violations during the rule of former president Suharto. The commission chairman, Ifdhal Kasim, says even though Suharto is dead, it does not mean that the cases are closed.

He says the prison labour camp of Buru island, where thousands of alleged communists and sympathisers were jailed without trial and the extrajudicial killing of street criminals in the 1980s, are examples of cases to be looked into.

He says the massacre of Muslim protesters at Jakarta’s Tanjung Priok port in 1984 and special military operations against separatist rebels in Aceh and Papua provinces are the two other major cases.

Source: ABC News