- Kamal Bamadhaj
Kamal Bamadhaj was a
political science student andhuman rights activist, who was killed in theDili Massacre inEast Timor onNovember 12 1991 .Of
Malaysia n andNew Zealand parentage, he was the only foreign national to be killed whenIndonesia n troops opened fire on a funeral procession at the Santa Cruz cemetery inDili . He attended theUniversity of New South Wales inSydney ,Australia , and worked as an interpreter for Australian aid agencies working in East Timor.The Indonesian military commander in East Timor, Sintong Panjaitan, who was removed from the post, later went to study in the
United States . In 1994, Bamadhaj's mother, Helen Todd, sued Panjaitan for punitive damages in a US court, but he dismissed the court's decision as 'a joke' [ [http://etan.org/et/1998/june/june16/massacre.htm etan.org] ] and returned to Indonesia.A 1999 film, called "Punitive Damage", tells the story of Todd's legal battle.
References
External links
* [http://www.hamline.edu/apakabar/basisdata/1991/11/24/0005.html Kamal's Diary, November 1991]
* [http://www.etan.org/news/2000a/suit/memo-law.htm HELEN TODD, Plaintiff v. SINTONG PANJAITAN, Defendant]
* [http://www.flickfilosopher.com/flickfilos/archive/4q99/punitivedamage.html "Punitive Damage"]
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