----- Original Message ----- From: ETAN To: [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 3:46 PM Subject: [pantau-komunitas] Sign the Petition: Don't Train Indonesia's Deadly Kopassus
Sign the Petition - http://www.gopetition.com/online/29600.html Don't Train Indonesia's Deadly Kopassus (please spread the word!) Indonesia's Special Forces (Kopassus), more than any other in the Indonesian military, stands accused by the Indonesian people of some of the most egregious human rights violations. The history of Kopassus human rights violations, its criminality and its unaccountability before Indonesian courts extends back decades and includes human rights and other crimes in East Timor, Aceh, West Papua and elsewhere. The crimes of Kopassus are not only in the past. A recently published Human Rights Watch report details ongoing Kopassus human right violations in West Papua. In 2008, the Bush administration proposed to restart U.S. training of Kopassus. the State Department legal counsel reportedly ruled that the ban on training of military units with a history of involvement in human rights violations, known as the Leahy law, applies to Kopassus as a whole. See the letter signed by more than 50 U.S. organizations opposing training for Kopassus: http://www.etan.org/news/2009/07kopassus.htm. Additional background about the crime of Kopassus here: http://www.etan.org/news/2008/04brikop.htm. Support ETAN - DONATE Today! Go here: http://etan.org/etan/donate.htm etanetanetanetanetanetanetanetanetanetanetanetan ETAN welcomes your support. Go to http://etan.org/etan/donate.htm to donate. Thank you. John M. Miller, National Coordinator East Timor & Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) PO Box 21873, Brooklyn, NY 11202-1873 USA Phone: (718)596-7668 Mobile phone: (917)690-4391 Email [email protected]; Mobile phone: (917)690-4391 Skype: john.m.miller Web site: http://www.etan.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/etan009 Facebook: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/134122?recruiter_id=10193810 Send a blank e-mail message to [email protected] to find out how to learn more about East Timor on the Internet Winners: John Rumbiak Human Rights Defender Award for 2009 etanetanetanetanetanetanetanetanetanetanetanetan
