The Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor (more commonly known by its Portuguese acronym CAVR: Comissão de Acolhimento, Verdade e Reconciliação de Timor Leste) is a body set up in 2000 by the United Nations (UN) and the Timor-Leste government charged to “inquire into human rights violations committed on all sides, between April 1974 and October 1999, and facilitate community reconciliation with justice for those who committed less serious offenses.” The Commission delivered its 2,500-page report, covering human rights violations from 1974 to 1999, to the President of East Timor on 31 October 2005. The President then handed the report to the Secretary General of the UN, as required by law, on the 20th January 2006.

External links

• http://www.hrdag.org/about/timor-leste.shtml
• http://www.easttimor-reconciliation.org/