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Indonesia’s civilian authorities also bear institutional responsibility.
The report says they also continued to fund militias despite knowing about the gross human rights violations they were committing.
Pro-independence groups also committed violations, it says, though far fewer and less serious in nature.
Some of this has been said before – part of the commission’s task was to analyse previous data – but this is a bilateral body, commissioned not by the UN, but by the two governments themselves.
Indonesia has traditionally said the violence in 1999 was sporadic – the result of the actions of a few individuals.
The question now is whether an admission of responsibility be enough for every Timorese – and whether it be too much for some in Indonesia

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