Newsgroup: it.discussioni.varie
Titolo: DIRITTI UMANI IN INDONESIA

C'e' per favore qualcuno che puo' aiutarmi o indicarmi 
qualche associazione che possa aiutarmi per un grave problema
DI DIRITTI UMANI NEGATI. Mia suocera e mia cognata sono 
Indonesiane della minoranza cinese. Ora in Indonesia la
comunità cinese è "sotto pressione". Le violenze dei
mesi scorsi (dimissioni di Suharto) si sono concentrate 
soprattutto sui cinesi. Ora la situazione NON E' MIGLIORATA,
anzi con le dimissioni di Suharto non c'e' piu' un "personaggio
forte" che tenga le redini del paese, e con la perdurante
crisi economica in un paese con milioni di gente poverissima
(e poche centinaia di ricchissimi), SONO PROBABILI SCOPPI
DI VIOLENZA IMPROVVISA (addirittura sembra ci siano piani di 
"islamizzare" il paese, di attaccare in massa i cinesi o
di cacciarli) O PREMEDITATA. In questa grave situazione
vorrei farle uscire dal paese prima possibile. COME POSSO
FARE OTTENERE LORO LO STATO DI RIFUGIATI? COME E DOVE
POSSO AVERE AIUTO PER FARLE VENIRE E RESTARE IN ITALIA?
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ROSSANO ROSSI
Via Leonardo da Vinci 11
30020 NOVENTA DI PIAVE (VE) ITALIA
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http://cnn.com
Indonesia Says No Accurate Data on Riot Rapes
Reuters
23-JUN-98
JAKARTA, June 23 (Reuters) - Indonesian Women's Affairs Minister 
Tuti Allawiyah said on Tuesday she has not received accurate 
data from any party, including non-government groups, on the 
rape of Chinese-Indonesian women in last month's riots. 
``It seems that the rape victims are keeping their cases secret 
and that we have difficulties unveiling them,'' she told 
reporters after a meeting with President B.J. Habibie. 
She called the rapes at the height of the riots in the 
Jakarta ``very inhuman.'' 
Activist groups estimate more than 100 rapes took place, 
many in a frighteningly systematic fashion, targeting women 
in the ethnic Chinese minority. The Chinese
community also bore the brunt of the physical damage and 
terror of the mid-May riots. 
The traumatised rape victims have mostly remained silent 
because of shame and fear of retaliation, activists said. 
Only now is the subject being more freely
discussed. 
The gang rapes took on a disturbingly similar pattern 
Throughout Jakarta on May 14 as rioters took control of 
most of the city of 10 million in the worst violence in
the capital in decades. 
The rioters would attack houses, rape the younger women, 
burn the house, and move on to the next house, the activists said. 
Prominent members of the ethnic Chinese community said the 
consequences were too hard to take for some of the women victims. 
Hotel manager Lim Sian Tie, who attended a seminar last 
week on riot trauma, said he was told one woman killed 
herself by drinking insecticide after she was
raped in front of her husband and children in the Chinatown 
district of North Jakarta. 
Ita Naida, chairwoman of the Kalyanmitra women's group, 
told Reuters Television that victims and their families 
reported a pattern whereby young
women were targeted and older ones passed by. 
Wives and mothers were raped in front of their husbands 
and children. 
The official National Commission on Human Riots has said 
at least 1,188 people died in the riots which peaked on May 14. 
Most are thought to have been looters burned to death in 
shopping centre fires, while others were ethnic Chinese 
trapped in their burning shops and homes.
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www.bbc.co.uk
Tuesday, June 23, 1998 Published at 17:51 GMT 18:51 UK 
Ethnic Chinese tell of mass rapes 
Ethnic Chinese women cower from rioters 
Reports are beginning to emerge that hundreds of women and 
girls of Chinese descent were raped during the riots that 
swept over Indonesia last month. 
As more women and girls - previously too scared to speak - 
come forward, a  disturbing pattern of systematic rape has 
been revealed. 
According to witnesses, the rioters would attack houses, 
rape the younger women, burn the house, and then move on 
to the next house. Girls as young as 11 were targeted, and 
were often raped in front of their families by as many as 10 
men. 
Ethnic Chinese, who made up only about 3% of Indonesia's 
population, have traditionally been made into scapegoats. 
When the rioting broke out in May, many Chinese shops and 
houses were looted and burned to the ground, and tens 
of thousands of Chinese fled the country.
The truth comes out 
The BBC Jakarta correspondent says that many of the ethnic 
Chinese are Christian, and it was at church that they first 
overcame their shame and spoke 
about what happened. 
As one woman spoke out about her experiences, another stood 
up and told a similar story, prompting others to do the same. 
A terrible realisation dawned on congregations in Jakarta and 
elsewhere: the Chinese women had become victims of what looked 
like a campaign of mass rape. 
Crisis groups have been set up to help the women, but there 
are still many unanswered questions, and there has been 
little official recognition of what happened. 
The extent of the violence
It is still not known how many women and girls were 
raped. Many have already fled from Indonesia, and others 
are still too traumatised to report it and fear 
further retaliation. 
An ethnic Chinese hotel manager, Lim Sian Tie, said many 
women tried to hide. 
"The trauma is so unbearable, they don't want to see anybody. 
That is quite understandable. If they are known to have 
been gang raped they would prefer to commit suicide." 
Our correspondent says that many of those who could not 
flee are still in hospital, their minds scarred and their 
bodies often horribly mutilated. 
A doctor at the hospital said that she knew of at least 
400 cases of rape. In one incident 68 Chinese women and 
girls were raped by groups of as many as 10 men 
who systematically worked through the floors of an 
apartment block in a middle-class, residential district. 
Unanswered questions
Frequently the women were raped in front of their families 
and neighbours. One man described how he helped a mother 
and three daughters escape the country. 
"On May 14 my friend's three daughters were put on the back 
of a truck by a group of men. They were repeatedly raped 
from four in the afternoon until three in the morning. 
The youngest was 14." 
Our correspondent says the unanswered question haunting the Chinese 
community, still numb with fear, is who did this? 
A number of victims have said that the men who raped them 
had crew cuts and tattoos and that they seemed to be drugged, 
or drunk. In the rumour mill of Jakarta, some have pointed 
to the same renegade units in the army which 
allegedly encouraged the rioters and looters. 
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Puoi comunque chiedere aiuto all'ambasciata indonesiana (probabilmente l'avrai già fatto) o altrimenti rivolgiti alle organizzazioni
che difendono i diritti umani tipo "Amnesty International" Via U. Foscolo N° 3 Tel.02/72003901 -- 02/878176 che si trova a Milano.
In bocca al lupo per la tua famiglia
Franca

Franca
Ora che mi ricordo c'è anche la "COMUNITA' DI S. EGIDIO" si trova a Roma,
non so l'indirizzo, però so che è molto attiva, e che si è sempre battuta
con grinta per difendere i diritti dell'uomo.
Di nuovo ciao
Franca