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Indonesia: Judges Sworn In for Special Court VOA News 31 Jan 2002 09:23 UTC 
Indonesia has sworn in nearly a dozen judges for a special court that will try those accused of human rights abuses in East Timor in 1999.
A swearing in ceremony was held Thursday in Jakarta.
The new justices, most of them university law professors, will join 12 career judges already appointed to Indonesia's new Ad Hoc Human Rights Court.
Prosecutors have charged 19 suspects, including three army generals, with responsibility for the violence that devastated East Timor in 1999, after the territory voted for independence from Indonesia.
No date has been set for the start of the trials.
Some information for this report provided by AP and Reuters.
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