Govt shows major setback in tackling human rights issues: NGO

The government’s attempts to find out those responsible for a series of human rights violations in the past had moved nowhere, an activist said during a really on Sunday.

Yatti Anggraeni, the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) head of impunity monitoring suspected that the setback was due to the government’s lack of guts to unveil the master minders allegedly involving former military officials.

“We, together with the families of the victims of the human rights violations, stage a mass rally in the front of the State Palace, demanding the government uphold justice,” she said as quoted by kompas.com.

Dozens of people grouped under the Human Rights Victims Association and Kontras gathered before the State Palace on Sunday, asking the government to tackle many human rights violations, such as the Talang Sari incident, the abduction of dozens of 1998 student activists, the murder of Munir, a human rights defender.


(2010-12-5/Jakarta Post)