An international tribunal for Timor-Leste: an idea that won't go away

Patrick Walsh, Senior Adviser to the Post-CAVR Technical Secretariat, writes of the re-emergence of calls for an international tribunal for past crimes in Timor-Leste.

Walsh notes that “for many this is not fundamentally about Indonesia”, but is about the “destiny of humanity” and is understood in the wider context of “the struggle to overcome the impunity which permits what are so powerfully termed ‘crimes against humanity’”. Walsh also concludes that “more tangibly, people keep coming back to the idea because they believe justice is central to sustainable peace”.