Tanjung Priok case gets prosecutors<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: The Attorney General's Office has appointed 14
\nprosecutors to handle the case of the 1984 Tanjung Priok shooting
\nincident in which at least 33 people died.<\/p>\n
At least 14 active and retired military officers, including
\nthe incumbent commander of the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus),
\nMaj. Gen. Sriyanto, have been named suspects in the case.<\/p>\n
On Sept. 12, 1984 soldiers opened fire on antigovernment
\nprotesters outside the Tanjung Priok mosque in North Jakarta.<\/p>\n
The shooting left 33 dead and 55 injured, according to a probe
\nby the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM). Families
\nof victims say the number of casualties was much higher.<\/p>\n
Sriyanto headed the North Jakarta military operation at the
\ntime.<\/p>\n
Attorney General's Office spokesman Antasari Azhar said
\nthat most of the 14 prosecutors had handled the prosecution in
\nthe East Timor human rights tribunal.<\/p>\n
"They have had experience with cases on gross human rights
\nabuses at the ad hoc human rights tribunal," he said, referring
\nto the special court set up to try gross human rights violations.<\/p>\n
Around 1,000 East Timorese died in the violence that followed
\nEast Timor's vote to separate from Indonesia in 1999. The United
\nNations blamed military-backed militias for the violence.<\/p>\n
The tribunal acquitted almost all military and police figures
\nwho stood trial for the East Timor violence. Critics blamed the
\nprosecutors for ignoring evidence presented by the UN, among
\nothers. -- JP<\/p>",
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