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The 2001 Foreign Operations Appropriations Act prohibits funding foreign security forces that commit gross human rights violations unless its government "is taking effective measures to bring the responsible members of the security forces unit to justice."
In its final 2005 report, East Timor's Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation called on nations to make Indonesian military aid:
"totally conditional on progress towards full democratization, the subordination of the military to the rule of law and civilian government, and strict adherence with international human rights, including respect for the right of self-determination."
In September 1999, Pentagon - Indonesian military ties were severed over TNI and its militia proxies' response to East Timorese independence, committing massacres and atrocities, UNAMET (the UN East Timor Mission) stating:
"The evidence for a direct link between the militia and the military is beyond dispute and has been overwhelmingly documented by UNAMET over the last four months. But the scale and thoroughness of the destruction of East Timor in the past week has demonstrated a new level of open participation of the military in the implementation of what was previously a more veiled operation."
UNAMET warned that "the worst may be yet to come....It cannot be ruled out that these are the first stages of a genocidal campaign to stamp out the East Timorese problem by force," skills the TNI and its Kopassas killers honed since Indonesia's 1945 independence.
In 2005 (despite TNI's unbroken record of human rights atrocities), the US State Department removed congressional restrictions on aiding Indonesia militarily, stating:
"it is in the national security interests of the United States to waive conditionality pertaining to Foreign Military Financing (FMF) and defense exports to Indonesia."
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