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AGO offers reconciliation for unresolved human rights abuses
The Attorney Generalâs Office (AGO) has offered a permanent solution for all unresolved human rights abuses through reconciliation
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The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has offered a permanent solution for all unresolved human rights abuses through reconciliation.
Attorney General HM Prasetyo said on Friday that the National Commission of Human Rights (Komnas HAM) would focus on collecting preliminary evidence on all human rights cases it has recorded.
AGO investigators will focus on carrying out thorough investigations into the human rights cases starting with the preliminary evidence.
'Our main target is old cases you already know and that have happened within the past 50 years and for which the rights commission has had difficulty gathering evidence and this is why all the cases submitted to the AGO have been sent back or rejected,' he said as quoted by tribunnews.com.
He mentioned seven old human rights cases handled by the rights commission ' the 1965 tragedy, mysterious shootings, the Talangsari incident, the Trisakti and Semanggi I and II tragedies, the abduction of pro-democracy activists, the May 1998 rioting and the Wasior shooting.
He said the AGO and the rights body has set up a joint team to build a common understanding of the human rights abuses. (rms)(++++)
