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Maria Catarina Sumarsih , the mother of Semanggi tragedy victim Bernardinus Realino Norma Irmawan, visits the Attorney General’s Office in Jakarta on Nov 13. - JP
“The acknowledgement without law enforcement is only empty talk. The Attorney General’s Office has a legal and moral obligation to investigate the perpetrators and bring justice to the victims. The absence of such stern action shows the state’s failure to uphold human rights as mandated by the 1998 Reform,” said the group’s executive director, Usman Hamid.
Usman said the Semanggi tragedies were not just a tragic moment in the country’s history but a critical juncture in the struggle that brought about the Reform period. Maria Katarina Sumarsih, the mother of Atma Jaya University student Bernardinus “Wawan” Realino Norma Irmawan, who was killed in the Semanggi I tragedy, is among the protesters who for dozens of years have demanded, through the Kamisan protests, the legal resolution of the country’s multiple gross human rights violations.
In fact, more than two decades since the establishment of the Human Rights Court in 2000, hopes for justice for the victims of the Semanggi tragedies and other gross human rights violations, including a violent purge of real and supposed communists in the 1960s that resulted in the death or imprisonment of more than half a million people, remain unfulfilled.
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