SexViolHist Bib: Prosecution: Trials: International People's Tribunal for 1965

»In November 2015, the International People's Tribunal on 1965 Crimes Against Humanity in Indonesia, presided over by seven international judges, was held in The Hague, Netherlands. It was formally established in 2014 by human rights activists, academics, and Indonesian exiles in response to an "absence of an official domestic process of transitional justice based on truth finding." In July 2016, chief judge Zak Yacoob publicly read the tribunal's findings, which called the state of Indonesia directly responsible for the events and guilty of crimes against humanity, blamed Suharto for spreading false propaganda and laying the grounds for the massacres, and concluded that the massacres "intended to annihilate a section of the population and could be categorised as genocide"; the report also highlighted other allegations which the panel found to be well-founded, including enslavement in labour camps, ruthless torture, systematic sexual violence, and forced disappearance. Indonesia rejected the tribunal's ruling; Security Minister Luhut Pandjaitan said the killings were "none of their business, they are not our superiors and Indonesia has its own system." The court has no legal authority to issue binding decisions or rulings.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century 21^st Century

II. Geographical Index: Asian History: Indonesian History

III. Topical Index: Cases: Real Incidents: Indonesian Mass Killings of 1965–66 | Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Pohlman, Anne E. »Small Boxes of Sexual Crimes: Turning Oral Histories into Evidence for the International People’s Tribunal for 1965.« 50^th Annual Meeting of the Oral History Association. Long Beach 2016.