Maluku top officer told to resign

Maluku top officer told to resign

YOGYAKARTA: Some 100 Maluku students in Yogyakarta staged a
rally here on Monday demanding Pattimura Military Commander Brig.
Gen. I Made Yasa, who oversees the riot-hit province, step down.

Calling themselves the Yogyakarta Maluku Muslim Students
Association (HIPMAMMAYO), the protesters said the Indonesian
Military (TNI) troops in Maluku had treated Muslims unfairly.

"22 civilians and one soldier were killed in a raid by the TNI
Joint Battalion on Thursday. It is just a small example of Made
Yasa's unfair policy as the military commander in Maluku," one of
the protesters, Syamsuddin Swasamu, said.

The students also accused the military in Maluku of doing
nothing against the separatist movement waged by people who wish
to establish the South Maluku Republic.

Yogyakarta provincial legislature's deputy speaker Totok
Daryanto told the protesters that councillors were in support of
the students' demand for serious handling of the Maluku conflict.
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