Short: East Timor Torture Photos w/HTML page
Author: Alexandre Gabriel
Uploader: chryse handrade pt
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East Timor Torture Photos
On 18 April 1996, the East Timor Human Rights Centre released photographs to the
Australian media showing four Timorese youths being tortured by the Indonesian
military.
The nine gruesome and explicit photos show the four blindfolded Timorese
actually being tortured. One youth is being beaten with an iron bar and kicked
in the neck, another is being strung up with a rope after being beaten, a third
is receiving what appears to be an electric shock, and a fourth is being held on
the ground, probably after being beaten.
There are obvious blood-stains on the walls, on the victims and around the site
of the mass grave and it is evident that the victims underwent extreme suffering
at the hands of the Indonesian military.
It is presumed that the photographs were either taken by the Indonesian
military for their records, or as a Indonesian "souvenir" of their exploits.
There are also photos of torture victims being buried in a mass grave. The
victims are probably the same youths depicted in the torture photos who died as
a result of the tortures.
The photos were received from reliable contacts in East Timor, whose identity
cannot be disclosed, for obvious reasons. The photos came from the Ainaro
district, about 100 km to the south of Dili, the capital of East Timor. As there
was heavy military activity around Ainaro in January 1995, it is believed that
that photos were most likely taken in Ainaro at that time.
The East Timor Human Rights Centre is continuing in its efforts to identify the
torture victims and to establish when and where the tortures took place. The
Centre will also send the photos to Amnesty International and the United
Nations, calling on them to investigate the tortures depicted in the
photographs.
* Victim 1 being beaten with iron bar
* Victim 1 being kicked in the neck
* Victim 2 strung up by rope after beating
* Victim 3 probably being given electric shock
* Victim 3 being choked
* Victim 4 being held on the ground, probably after being beaten
* Torture victims being dragged into grave
* Torture victims being dragged into grave
* Mass grave being filled after burial of torture victims
These images and text were taken from:
http://www.peg.apc.org/~etchrmel/photos.htm
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Alexandre Gabriel
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