Indonesia and East Timor announced this week they would establish a bilateral "truth and friendship commission" to heal wounds between the two countries left by the 1999 violence in which Jakarta's military and associated militias laid waste to East Timor.
While on the surface the move appears to be a step forward for tiny East Timor, population 800,000, and neighbouring Indonesia, population 220m, human rights groups have been quick to criticise it.
