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TIM ADVOKASI KEBENARAN DAN KEADILAN - Elsam

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genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity, including those relating to ethnic,<br />

gender and sexually based international crimes, ensure that no such amnesty<br />

previously granted is a bar to prosecution before any United Nations-created or<br />

assisted court”. Lebih jauh Sekjen PBB menyatakan bahwa “in the face of widespread<br />

human rights violations, States have the obligation to act not only against perpetrators,<br />

but also on behalf of victims – including through the provision of reparations.”<br />

Dalam Laporan Ahli Independen untuk Prinsip-Prinsip Menentang Impunity 18<br />

Februari 2005, pada bagian amnesty, Ahli Diane Orientlicher, melaporkan bahwa<br />

“recent decisions have reaffirmed the incompatibility of amnesties that lead to impunity<br />

with the duty of States to punish serious crimes under international law”.<br />

h. Prinsip-Prinsip menentang Impuniti<br />

Dalam Resolusi yang mengesahkan Updated Set of Principles for the Protection and<br />

Promotion of Human Rights through Action to Combat Impunity (UN Doc.<br />

E/CN.4/2005/L.10/Add.17) atau Prinsip melawan Impuniti, Komisi HAM PBB<br />

menekankan agar “States, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental<br />

organizations to consider the recommendations and best practices identified in…the<br />

updated Principles, as appropriate, in developing and implementing effective<br />

measures to combat impunity”. Selanjutnya Resolusi tersebut juga menyatakan<br />

“amnesties should not be granted to those who commit violations of human rights and<br />

international humanitarian law that constitute crimes.”<br />

Bahwa ahli Professor Paul van Zyl mengingatkan, sebagaimana diutarakan<br />

sebelumnya, sebagai anggota Dewan HAM PBB (pengganti Komisi HAM), Indonesia<br />

telah berkomitmen untuk bertindak sesuai dengan resolusi yang dikeluarkan Komisi<br />

HAM PBB. Bahwa kemudian dalam Pasal 19 Prinsip Melawan Impuniti ditegaskan<br />

bahwa “those responsible for serious crimes under international law are prosecuted,<br />

tried and duly punished.”<br />

i. Pernyataan Perwakilan Indonesia pada Dewan HAM PBB<br />

Dalam press release PBB 23 Juni 2006, dalam memberikan pandangan negara<br />

mengenai rekomendasi mengadopsi Konvensi perlindungan atas Penghilangan<br />

Paksa, perwakilan Indonesia, Wiwiek Setyawati, menyatakan bahwa “it was essential<br />

that the Council put the highest priority on non-derogable rights. Extra-judicial killings<br />

and enforced disappearances should be put to an end. Nobody should be subjected to<br />

enforced disappearance, and there should be zero tolerance for the act. The<br />

Convention would be an important standardd-setting document which provided for<br />

protection from enforced disappearance” Sementara itu menurut ahli Professor Paul<br />

van Zyl, Konvensi tersebut memuat banyak pasal yang secara nyata mendukung<br />

proposisi bahwa pelaku penghilangan paksa harus dituntut. Berkaitan dengan<br />

dukungan Indonesia tersebut, terlihat bahwa Indonesia telah mengikat dirinya dalam<br />

arena internasional untuk menghukum para pelaku tindakan tersebut.<br />

j. Putusan-Putusan Pengadilan<br />

Ketidakabsahan amnesti untuk tindakan yang termasuk pelanggaran HAM berat atau<br />

hal-hal yang berkaitan dengan hal tersebut telah menjadi yurisprudensi dalam<br />

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