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Learning of East Timor Human Rights Violation Cases*

Introduction A crucial report about human right violation in East Timor, has been released from early March 2007 in Jakarta. This report was written based on more than 8,000 interviews with victims and witnesses who experienced violence conducted both by the Indonesian military and East Timor freedom fighters. The number of victims, written in this report, surprisingly comes to hundreds of thousands. Many were killed sadistically, faced coerced disappearances, become disabled, raped and killed after or left died of hunger. Therefore, Chega! became the title of this report. Chega is a Portuguese word means ‘enough’ or ‘stop’. “Hopefully the title became admonition for stop human violence,” Patrick Walsh, senior advisor for Commission for Reception Truth and Reconciliation  (CAVR), the institution who made this report, said to me after his speech at the released time. This Violence cycle started when Indonesian Government launch invasion to East Timor in December 7 1975. While,