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Mrs. Mary Robinson 
United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights 
Palais des Nations, 8-14 avenue de la Paix 
CH 1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland 
Tel: (41 22) 9173456 Fax: (41 22) 9170213 
E-mail: webadmin.hchr@unog.ch

Dear Mrs. Robinson, 
We, as the International Community, are aware that, during the recent
riots spread throughout Indonesia, Chinese-Indonesians have been 
tortured, killed, and burnt to death. Their houses and shops have been 
looted and burnt. Hundreds of Chinese-Indonesian women and even children 
have been savagely gang-raped in public by organized indigenous-Indonesian 
gangs with alleged links to security forces.

Human rights and women's aid groups have received telephone threats and 
even a hand grenade in the mail as a warning to stop the investigations 
and their aid to victims. So far little has been done by the government. 
Their denial and sluggishness in preventing the atrocities strengthen 
the public allegations that the riots were directed by the Indonesian 
political and military elites.

It is very obvious that organized sexual assault suffered by 
Bosnian-Muslim, Tutsi, and Algerian women has been used in Indonesia as 
a tactic in terrorizing and humiliating Chinese-Indonesians.

We urge the United Nations to: 
1. Condemn strongly the savage violation of human rights in Indonesia.

2. Press the Indonesian government to conduct a thorough investigation 
   to punish the perpetrators and the brains behind the ferocious racial 
   attacks.

3. Charge the violators as international criminals to be brought 
   to the International Crime Court in the Netherlands.

4. Press the Indonesian government to make guarantee that no such
   racial incident against Chinese-Indonesians will recur in the future.

5. Press the Indonesian government to protect Chinese-Indonesians
   and human rights and women's aid groups who are under constant
   threat and danger.

6. Impose political sanctions to the Indonesian government 
   if such racial incidents recur in the future.

7. Grant refugee status to the Chinese-Indonesians whose lives are in 
   extreme danger.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Name: E-mail:

The Honorable Edward M. Kennedy
United States Senate
315 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-2101
E-mail: senator@kennedy.senate.gov

Dear Senator Kennedy:

On behalf of the thousands of Indonesians and People around the world,
we are very concerned with what has happened in Indonesia recently.
Chinese-Indonesians have been tortured, killed, and burnt to death.
Their houses and shops have been looted and burnt. Hundreds of
Chinese-Indonesian women and even children have been savagely gang-raped
in public by organized indigenous-Indonesian gangs with alleged links to
security forces.

Human rights and women's aid groups have received telephone threats and
even a hand grenade in the mail as a warning to stop the investigations
and their aid to victims.

The killings of Chinese Indonesian have been going on for many years.
During 1968-1969, an estimated 500,000 people of ethnic Chinese were
killed.

We urge US Congress to schedule congressional hearings to bring in the
victims and the eyewitnesses. We have contacted some of these people and
they may be willing to come forward under certain protection.

We urge US congress to pass a resolution to:
1. Condemn strongly the savage violation of human rights in Indonesia.

2. Press the Indonesian government to set up an independent group to 
   conduct a thorough investigation to punish the violators.

3. Charge the violators as international criminals to be brought to 
   the International Crime Court in the Netherlands.

4. Urge the Indonesian government to make guarantee that no such racial 
   incident against Chinese-Indonesians will recur in the future.

5. Press the Indonesian government to protect Chinese-Indonesians and 
   human rights and women's aid groups who are under constant threat 
   and danger.

6. Impose political sanctions to the Indonesian government 
   if such racial incidents recur in the future.

7. Grant refugee status to the Chinese-Indonesians whose lives are in 
   extreme danger.

We, as the citizens of the world, do not deserve to emerge to the next
millennium and claim a progress in civilization if we are ignorant and
dormant to the atrocities against our fellow human being. We feel that
US, as the leader of the free world, should make sure the human rights
bill is exercised and further killings are stopped in Indonesia.

Sincerely,

Name: E-mail:

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