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During the bloody insurrection that produced the new nation of East Timor, Hasan Basri presented residents of the small town of Venelale with a proposition: give me your youngest children. I will feed them, I will educate them, and most importantly, I will protect them. At the time, Jose Pereira, a poor local farmer, awoke each morning wondering if that day the truckload of Indonesian soldiers would appear in their vengeful hunt for independence fighters and attack his family. He listened carefully to what the stranger offered. Hasan said he had government funding. He would take the children...
...Four years have passed. East Timor is peaceful and its people are getting on with the business of nation-building. Yet Pereira has not been reunited with his sons. Hasan refuses to let them go. He holds them, as he does about 50 others, in orphanages far from their birthplaces. They are part of a lost generation of East Timorese children cut adrift from their parents by civil unrest. The United Nations estimates there are 400 children like Jacinto and Marito scattered in orphanages and homes throughout Indonesia. Despite the intervention of international agencies and repeated requests from parents...
...debaters included Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, as well as Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, a syndicated radio talk show host, Hasan Abdel Rahman, the chief Palestinian negotiator in the U.S., and Hussein Ibish, the communications director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee...
...HASAN, along with many of Mughogho’s former classmates, organized petitions and a teach-in to raise awareness about his case. They also asked alumni around the world to petition in their respective countries...
...Having so much international attention focused on the case made it more difficult for them to circumvent the rule of law,” said Derrick N. Ashong ’97, a first-year graduate student and the coordinator of the HASAN Political Action Group. “The government had no case but if no one is paying any attention, governments railroad people all the time...