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House criticised over moves to get US travel ban on Syamsoeddin lifted
Detik.com - April 28, 2011
"We reject the request by DPR members to the US to revoke the US travel ban on Deputy Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin. The DPR commission's visit to the US to lobby for the lifting of the travel ban is not the right thing to do because of allegations of responsibility for human rights violations", said Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) Coordinator Haris Azhar.
Azhar conveyed the group's objections during a break in a "Thursday" action in front of the State Palace on Jl Medan Merdeka Utara in Central Jakarta on Thursday April 28.
"The [US] refusal to give Sjafrie a visa is a form of the application of the principle of universal jurisdiction on case of gross human rights violations. These are serious crimes that are categories as enemies of humanity so it has authority anywhere and indefinitely. [He] must be punished over this case", asserted Azhar.
Azhar is urging the DPR to concentrate on solving the TNI's internal systems of correction rather than dealing with Sjamsoeddin's travel ban. "The government should be thinking about correcting the TNI through a vetting mechanism or by identifying human rights violators, removing them from their posts and not including them in the command structure", said Azhar. (Ari/nwk)
[Translated by James Balowski.]
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