Wako a survivor of numerous indictments

Attorney General Amos Wako has survived immense condemnation over the failure to prosecute cases during most of his 18 years at the helm of the State Law Office.

The report by the UN Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial killings is the fourth indictment the government’s legal adviser has had to face in the recent past.

It comes from a man whose position Mr Wako held between 1982 and 1992 as the first UN Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions. During his tenure, Mr Wako visited the former Yugoslavia, Zaire (DRC), Colombia, Surinam and Uganda.

In 1992, he was appointed by UN secretary-general Boutros Boutros Ghali as a special envoy of the secretary-general to East Timor to investigate an incident in which Indonesian troops fired on a peaceful memorial procession.