Local Group Wins Victory for East Timor Victims
- October 15, 2001
In a case brought by a local legal nonprofit, a U.S. district judge has ordered a high-ranking Indonesian general to pay $66 million in compensatory and punitive damages for massive human rights violations committed in East Timor.
Serb Faces U.S. Damages Claim
- October 15, 2001
“Muslim victims of Serb paramilitary sue him for millions of dollars in U.S. court.”
Giving the Devil His Due
- May 31, 2001
For several years in the early 1990s U.S. intelligence maintained close ties with a Haitian named Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, the founder of a savage paramilitary group that has been held responsible for a prolonged wave of killings and other atrocities. Toto Constant today walks the streets of Queens, a free man. How did he come to find refuge in the United States? Who has been holding up his deportation?
Government to Defend Lumintang Over Rights Case
- March 28, 2001
The government will defend Ministry of Defense secretary-general Lt. Gen. Johny Lumintang, who is facing an in-absentia trial in the United States over his alleged role in East Timor rights violations.
U.S. to Resume Military Assistance to Indonesia: Juwono
- April 15, 2000
Minister of Defense Juwono Sudarsono has expressed his optimism that the United States will resume its military assistance to Indonesia.
San Francisco Chronicle
- April 7, 2000
The Center for Justice and Accountability has pursued many…cases since its founding in 1998, and it has won multimillion-dollar civil verdicts against perpetrators of torture and government-sanctioned killings in El Salvador, Honduras, Chile, Peru, H
Robert White, Former U.S. Ambassador
- April 6, 2000
“CJA has become the leader in the never-ending fight to demonstrate to the world that America has not forgotten its ideals.”
Fr. Stephen Privett, SJ, President, University of San Francisco
- April 6, 2000
“CJA’s overall goals are some of the finest examples of effective work for justice and human rights we have today.”
Independent E. Timor Remains Indonesia’s Stumbling Block
- April 5, 2000
Former president B.J. Habibie was naive when he thought that letting go of East Timor would mean an end to Indonesia’s problems.