Mrs Mary Robinson arrived in East Timor today where she condemned Indonesia's trials over atrocities in the territory in 1999 and said she would take her concerns to the UN Security Council.
It is the second trip to the territory by the UN high commissioner for human rights since the UN-sponsored independence ballot in August 1999 when East Timor voted overwhelmingly to split from Indonesia, unleashing a wave of killings and destruction by pro-Jakarta militias.
Jakarta's special human rights court last week delivered its first verdicts in a string of cases linked to the carnage. It acquitted a former East Timor police chief and five other security officers of crimes against humanity and gave an ex-governor a jail sentence far shorter than prosecutors had requested.
"The results were not satisfying . . . in terms of international human rights standards," Mrs Robinson told reporters at Dili airport "This will attract world attention and we will take this to an international forum and the United Nations Security Council," she said.
Mrs Robinson is on a two-day visit to Dili as part of a final trip to Asia before leaving office next month. She will later address the newly independent territory's parliament and meet several rights groups.
She also plans to travel to the coastal town of Liquica on tomorrow to hear the first public confessions from perpetrators of the violence and visit the border town of Suai where 27 people were killed in a church massacre just days after the independence vote.
Mrs Robinson's August 18-25th trip precedes her handover of her position to Mr Sergio Vieira de Mello, a Brazilian veteran of the UN refugee agency and former head of the UN administration in East Timor.