The United States criticized Indonesian prosecutors last week for failing to convict six officials of human rights abuses committed in East Timor after the 1999 referendum for independence. Human rights groups such as Amnesty International denounced the verdicts, demanding that the United Nations establish a war crimes tribunal for the 11 remaining cases. A former governor who was convicted of crimes against humanity received a sentence of three years, instead of the 10-and-a-half year sentence demanded by the prosecution.
