"The Court's failure to so act would allow such abuses to continue to taint the integrity of [the] courts," he said.

And it has aroused new anger by allowing abuses by militias to continue in the refugee camps of West Timor.

Finally, he will determine what responsibility commanders had for the scandal, and whether they had somehow fostered an environment that allowed sexual abuses to thrive.

He allowed innumerable abuses to grow up in the army.

Though he is deeply unpopular, particularly for allowing long-running abuses of power by his wife and son, he is not accused of any wrongdoing.

An exchange that allows repeated abuses will quickly find it has no customers.

If we allow small abuses now, who knows what sort of things he'll be doing five years on!

The absence of scrutiny and independent judicial review, defense lawyers and legal experts say, has allowed prosecutorial abuses to flourish.

They have allowed abuses to occur.

They also must examine and revise the institutional structures that allowed such abuses to occur.