Photos have emerged of George Brandis dining with Indonesia's controversial chief security minister.
Photos have emerged of Australian attorney-general George Brandis dining at a restaurant in West Papua with Indonesia's chief security minister and alleged war criminal, Wiranto.
Matius Murib
In them, Brandis is seen smiling and relaxed alongside Wiranto (right) and coordinating minister for maritime affairs, Luhut Pandjaitan (left), at a restaurant in the capital of Jayapura.
Brandis visited the Indonesian-controlled province with the two Indonesian ministers on 11 August.
Wiranto is wanted by a United Nations-backed court for his time as commander of the Indonesian armed forces, who cut a bloody path through East Timor in the wake of the 1999 vote for independence.
An estimated 1400 East Timorese were killed by the military or military-aligned militias, 70% of the country's buildings destroyed and hundreds of thousands were forced to flee from Indonesian violence in the days leading up to and immediately after the vote.
In 2004, an arrest warrant was issued for Wiranto by the UN-led Special Panels for Serious Crimes in East Timor, charging him with the crimes against humanity of murder, forcible transfer and persecution, including illegal detention, assaults and arson.
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Wiranto (pictured below, to Brandis' left) has denied the allegations, saying recently, "I want them to clearly point out when and where exactly my involvement [in the crimes against humanity in East Timor] was. Only then will I explain, one by one."
A former chief prosecutor for the Serious Crimes Unit in East Timor from 2003-2005, Nicholas Koumjian, has responded in the Jakarta Post doing just that.
"Does Wiranto now deny that the violence occurred, deny he was commander of the armed forces at the time, deny that he knew what was going on in a territory whose security he was responsible for, or deny that he did nothing to stop the violence or punish the perpetrators?," he writes.
"Over the last 17 years, Wiranto has failed to answer any of these points, and undoubtedly will fail to do so now, hoping that what happened almost two decades ago will simply be forgotten."
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