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        "id": 1060874,
        "msgid": "confusing-testimonies-1447893297",
        "date": "1996-04-12 00:00:00",
        "title": "Confusing testimonies",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Confusing testimonies SURABAYA: Witnesses in the military tribunals of four soldiers allegedly responsible for the 1993 fatal shooting of four villagers from Nipah, on Madura Island, gave different testimonies from those recorded in the trial dossiers. Suridah and Dariah, who were among the mob of villagers angry over a planned land appropriation scheme and clashed with the military, denied that the villagers were shouting.",
        "content": "<p>Confusing testimonies<\/p>\n<p>SURABAYA: Witnesses in the military tribunals of four soldiers<br>\nallegedly responsible for the 1993 fatal shooting of four<br>\nvillagers from Nipah, on Madura Island, gave different<br>\ntestimonies from those recorded in the trial dossiers.<\/p>\n<p>Suridah and Dariah, who were among the mob of villagers angry<br>\nover a planned land appropriation scheme and clashed with the<br>\nmilitary, denied that the villagers were shouting. The dossiers<br>\nsaid that the shouting was the reason why 18 security officers<br>\nunder Second Lt. Djakfar Sudjak, one of the defendants,<br>\napproached the crowd and opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>The witnesses said that when the soldiers opened fire, some<br>\nvillagers immediately pleaded with them to stop. \"Let us live,<br>\nsir.. let us live,\" the witnesses quoted what some of the women<br>\nvillagers begged of the soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Sunari, another witness, denied a part in the dossiers which<br>\nsaid that the villagers were armed with bamboo spears.<\/p>\n<p>In the dossiers, the defendants said that one of the villagers<br>\nthrew a spear at First Corporal Kasimun. Defendants Said Riyadi<br>\nand Siswanto then allegedly opened fire on the mob from a<br>\ndistance of about 13 meters, while Bambang Edi Cahyono shot<br>\ntoward a tree surrounded by the villagers. Sudjak himself<br>\nreportedly gave three warning shots.<\/p>\n<p>\"Nobody brought spears or weapons. They only came to watch<br>\nofficials measuring our land,\" Sunari said.<\/p>\n<p>Three men and a woman from the village on Madura were killed<br>\nin Sept. 1993 when troops opened fire on locals protesting<br>\nagainst a government team measuring land to be appropriated for a<br>\nreservoir.  (15\/31)<\/p>",
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