Abstract
Abstract Truth commissions have become an almost ubiquitous policy option in the range of accountability mechanisms for human rights violations. In East Timor, the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR) is only one of multiple processes to deal with human rights violations of a past regime. It co-exists with criminal trials conducted by the Serious Crimes Panel, and an ad hoc Human Rights Court established by Indonesia. The CAVR, established by a United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) Regulation, is an independent state-sanctioned entity whose objective is ‘to promote national reconciliation and healing following the years of political conflict in East Timor, in particular, following the atrocities committed in 1999’ by ‘establishing the truth regarding the commission of human rights violations’. This chapter examines the CAVR, and identifies some of the potential areas of tension which it faces, particularly in its function as an accountability mechanism for human rights violations.
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