While world attention is focused on the crimes committed by Indonesia's military in East Timor last year, former Indonesian president Suharto is living in peace and comfort, still not charged for the countless crimes against humanity he ordered during his 33-year dictatorship.
1965-66: More than 1 million communists and left-wing sympathisers were massacred and hundreds of thousands interned without trial after Suharto and the military seized power in October 1965.
January 15, 1974: Scores were killed and more than 200 arrested during riots in Jakarta following massive student demonstrations against corruption and military abuse.
October 16, 1975: Five Australian and one British journalist reporting on Indonesian preparations to invade East Timor were murdered by Kopassandah (secret warfare) troops in Balibo, East Timor.
December 7, 1975: More than 200,000 East Timorese — almost one third of the population — were killed during and after Indonesia invaded East Timor as a result of military activity and starvation. Hundreds more East Timorese independence activists were arrested, tortured and murdered during Jakarta's 24-year occupation.
September 12, 1984: As many as 63 people were killed and more than 100 injured when troops fired on peaceful demonstrators in the port district of Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta.
1983: An estimated 10,000 petty-criminals were murdered during "mysterious shootings" (the Petrus campaign) in Jakarta and other major cities in Java and Sumatra. In his 1989 autobiography, Suharto confirmed he had authorised the killings saying that it was done "for the purpose of shock therapy".
February 7, 1989: As many as 100 people were killed when troops surrounded a village in Lampung, South Sumatra, opened fire and set fire to homes. The government claimed the villagers were members of a "deviant" Muslim sect and that troops were "defending themselves".
November 12, 1991: At least 270 died during the Santa Cruz massacre in Dili, capital of East Timor. Independence movement reports assert that as many as 200 more were later rounded up and killed in the days after the massacre.
July 1993: Two Muslim scholars were shot dead and a number of others badly wounded when police attacked another alleged "religious sect" in Haur Koneng, West Java.
September 1993: Four people were killed by troops in Nipah, on the Island of Madura, as they were demonstrating against land being cleared for a dam project.
May 8, 1993: three days after leading a strike in Surabaya, East Java, Marsinah, a woman activist, was found dead in a remote hut. Tortured and raped before being killed, there was extensive circumstantial evidence that she had been kidnapped and killed by the military.
April 30, 1994: a woman worker activist in Bandung, Titie Sugiarti, was found dead at the factory where she worked. Evidence suggested she was killed by the military.
March 11, 1994: Rusli, a worker activist, was found dead in Medan, North Sumatra, two days after leading a strike. Witnesses saw him being pursued and clubbed by security personnel during the strike on March 9.
October 27, 1994: Budi Santosa Surbakti, an activist with the Legal Aid Institute in Bandung, West Java, died under mysterious circumstances while investigating a case against local police.
1994: another wave of the Petrus campaign occurred in Jakarta, this time far more blatantly with uniformed officers carrying out the shootings. Over 100 people were shot dead or wounded.
July 27, 1996: Paid thugs backed by the military attacked and destroyed the offices the pro-Megawati Sukarnoputri Indonesian Democratic Party in Jakarta, resulting in the death of as many as 50 people. Popular outrage at the attack sparked several days of mass rioting and violent clashes with police. The regime blamed the People's Democratic Party for the unrest and its members were hunted down and arrested.
August 1996: A journalist with the Yogyakarta-based newspaper Bernas, Fuad Muhammad Syafruddin (better known as Udin), died under mysterious circumstances. He was investigating a corruption case involving the regent of Bantul, Central Java, Colonel Sri Rosa Sudarmo.
January-May 1998: As many as 23 activists were kidnapped by the army's special force, Kopassus, then headed by Suharto's son-in-law, Lieutenant General Prabowo. Many of the nine who "resurfaced" said they had been tortured. One was found dead and 13 remain missing.
May 12, 1998: Security personnel shot into student protesters from the Trisakti University near their campus in West Jakarta, killing four students and injuring several.
May 13-15, 1998: In Jakarta, as many as 2000 people died during riots orchestrated by the military. Many of the victims were Chinese Indonesians targeted by organised gangs to deflect anger away from the regime during in the last days before Suharto was forced to resign. Hundreds of Chinese women were raped and a number killed.
Between 1980 and 1992, as many as 2000 were killed and hundreds more tried and jailed, accused of being members of the Free Aceh Movement in Indonesia's most northern province of Aceh. Hundreds pro-independence activists have been arrested, tortured or killed by the Indonesian military in West Papua since it became part of Indonesia in 1969.
In its 1992 country report, the US State Department concluded that "torture and mistreatment of criminal suspects, detainees, and prisoners are common, and the legal protections are violated by the government".
Aside from those detained in 1965-66, Amnesty International reports that at least 358 prisoners of conscience were detained by security forces during Suharto's rule.
[Compiled by James Balowski, Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor's publications and information officer.]