ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates that none of the categories of actors were responsible for the entire outcome of transitional justice in the country. The background section briefly revisits the main developments and issues at the heart of the transitional justice discourse in East Timor. Despite similarities in the general transitional arrangements of Kosovo and East Timor, transitional justice in the latter’s peacebuilding transition involved a more diversified set of measures than in the case of Kosovo. Discrete agencies of different categories of actors left various imprints on the manifestation of transitional justice throughout the peacebuilding transition. The chapter illustrates how, through interactions of various categories of actors, different transitional justice mechanisms could be established and multiplied. The KPP-HAM was not established as a justice-seeking measure, but rather as a diplomatic and political manoeuvre by a specific external actor, Indonesia, in order to evade justice or accountability-seeking.
