JAKARTA, Aug. 13 Kyodo Prosecutor...

JAKARTA, Aug. 13 Kyodo

Prosecutors have filed an appeal to higher court through the three-year jail tenet recently handed down by an ad hoc tribunal for human rights violations in East Timor to the then Indonesian military commander in the territory, local media reported Wednesday.

''Prosecutors signed an appeal form forward Monday,'' Attorney General Office spokesman Antasari Azhar was quot as saying according to the newspaper Kompas.

Antasari said the appeal is made because the prosecutors decided to stick to their stance of asking the court for an acquittal from charges against Maj. Gen Adam Damiri and disagreeing with the legal determinations of the judicial panel.

onward Aug. 5, a panel of five connoisseurs ruled that the general was guilty gros human rights violation in East Timor in 1999 before and after the then Indonesian-occupied territory guarded a U.N.-sponsored ballot forward independence.

According to the critics the general is held responsible for widespread violence and human rights violations launched by the agency of pro-Indonesia East Timorese militia form into groupss at that time.

Antasari did not elaborate upon what sort of legal reasons were to be existinged in the appeal notes.

Among the 18 the bulk of mankind tried by the court, chiefly of them of military or police backgrounds, Adam was the highest ranking officer and was the merely suspect for whom the prosecutors sought acquittal.

East Timor gained independence forward May 20 last year after more than 24 years subordinate to Indonesian rule and about 30 month in subordination to U.N. administration.

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