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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Nov 18, 2003
Condemns past and ongoing violations of human rights by all sides in the Indonesian province of Aceh.
Calls on the Government and armed forces of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) to declare a ceasefire and return to negotiations.
Calls for an end to martial law and human rights violations.
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Calls for immediate access by international humanitarian and human rights organizations and journalists.
Calls for the public release of any surveillance files on Jafar Siddiq Hamzah.
Calls on the Government of Malaysia to refrain from the forcible return of Acehnese asylum seekers to Indonesia, allowing them full access to representatives of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Calls on the President and Secretary of State to: (1) press both sides to the conflict to suspend hostilities, return to negotiations, and cease all human rights violations; (2) increase efforts to assist in the rehabilitation and economic development of Aceh; (3) protest human rights violations and encourage their investigation, including pressing the Government of Indonesia to identify those individuals within the Indonesian armed forces, police, and others who should be prosecuted for human rights crimes; (4) review its bilateral relationship and military assistance to Indonesia; and (5) urge the Indonesian Government and armed forces to refrain from using U.S.-supplied weaponry in Aceh.
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Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7] · D–NY
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Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
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