Dutch to reveal probe on Thoenes<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: The secretariat of the human rights ad hoc
\nprosecutors revealed on Monday that Dutch police assigned to
\nprobe the murder of Dutch journalist Sander Thoenes in the 1999
\nEast Timor debacle will hand over the investigation's result to
\nAttorney General M.A. Rachman on July 17.<\/p>\n
Secretary Umar Bawazier, accompanied by Attorney General
\ndeputy spokesman Chuck Suryosumpeno, told reporters that the
\nprobe carried out by Chief Inspector GWC Thiery of the Royal
\nNetherlands Police may provide hard proof to reopen Indonesia's
\ninvestigation into the case.<\/p>\n
Thoenes, a Jakarta-based writer for London's Financial Times,
\nwas killed on the first day he arrived in Dili on Sept. 21, 1999,
\nas he and motorcycle driver Florindo Counseiho Araujo traveled
\naround Dili to cover the post-ballot destruction of the city. In
\nBecora suburb, a former militia stronghold, armed men chased the
\nmotorcycle and shot out the rear wheel.<\/p>\n
His body was found the next day with multiple wounds and an
\near missing.<\/p>\n
The ad hoc prosecutors dropped the case due to what they say
\nwas a lack of evidence. --JP<\/p>",
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