In a letter to Mr. Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary General dated 15 March, 2000 the Asian Human Rights Commission calls on the United Nations to take effective steps to prosecute all those suspected of human rights violations in East Timor. United Nations efforts so far to bring to justice those responsible for 25 years of suffering by the East Timorese people have been grossly inadequate and marred by misguided and unacceptable policy decisions. In particular the Asian Human Rights Commission understands that the United Nations Transitional Authority in East Timor (UNTAET) is only seeking to investigate atrocities which occurred in the year 1999, ignoring the previous 24 years of genocide, torture, massacres and arbitrary killings. This is profoundly offensive to the relatives of those who died between 1975 and 1998 and to the most basic idea of justice. The Asian Human Rights Commission calls on the United Nations to take effective steps to bring to trial all those still alive who are responsible for the atrocities during the period of Indonesian occupation since 1975. The Asian Human Rights Commission further calls on the United Nations to: * immediately increase by at least four-fold the resources available to UNTAET for investigation of these atrocities; * collaborate more closely with CNRT and other East Timorese organisations and individuals in carrying out investigations in East Timor; * collaborate more closely with KPP-Ham and other Indonesian organisations investigating from within Indonesia; * set up an international tribunal for the trial of the most senior persons suspected of committing these crimes , similar to the tribunals set up for Bosnia and Rwanda; * issue international arrest warrants for the most senior suspects including General Prabowo Subianto and General Zacky Anwar Makarim. The letter is also copied to Ms. Mary Robinson, High Commissioner for Human Rights.