Poso killers get executed at X-mas

Poso killers get executed at X-mas

PALU, Central Sulawesi: The Central Sulawesi Police is gearing
up for the execution of three convicts around Christmas time for
their roles in dozens of murders in Poso.

The police chief, Brig. Gen. Oegroseno, said on Friday he had
received a letter of request from the provincial prosecutor's
office asking for a firing squad who would execute Fabianus Tibo,
Dominggus da Silva and Marinus Riwu, whose appeal for clemency
has been denied by the President.

"We have not assigned personnel who will conduct the
execution, but we have proposed that it take place after
Christmas," Oegroseno said.

The lawyer representing the three death-row inmates has asked
the police to investigate 16 other people that his clients
claimed were involved in the Muslim-Christian conflict between
2000 and 2001, which claimed over 1,000 lives, before their
execution was conducted.

Oegroseno said the police were taking the request into
account, but insisted that it would not delay the execution.

The country has executed four people, three of them
foreigners, since August 2004. -- Antara