51. Interim President Valentin Paniagua formally installed a truth commission Friday to investigate human rights abuses committed by leftist rebels and government forces in Peru over the last two decades. 52. Indonesia has rejected an international inquiry, saying its own national rights commission should investigate abuses. 53. It also urged the Indonesian national human rights commission to investigate abuses during the upheaval. 54. It has also previously managed to block U.N. attempts to investigate human rights abuses, saying it is a strictly internal affair. 55. Lugaju criticized Botha for his refusal to cooperate with the commission that was investigating abuses, including murder and torture, carried out under his rule. 56. Local human rights groups said Monday they will ask Amnesty International to investigate alleged abuses of civil rights. 57. NTV television reported that Epp had been heading for a meeting with a journalist for the Izvestiya national daily who was investigating alleged abuses in the regional administration. 58. Other stipulations include expanding U.N. powers to investigate police abuses, and insisted on compliance with the international war crimes tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands. 59. Power generating companies opposed the proposal, saying FERC and the Justice Department already have authority to investigate abuses. 60. Power generating companies opposed the proposal on grounds FERC and the Justice Department already have authority to investigate abuses. |