Two live bullets found at Cenderawasih Univeristy

Two live bullets found at Cenderawasih Univeristy

JAKARTA (JP): A fact-finding team led by Irian Jaya Military
Police Commander Lt. Col. Armen B. found two live bullets
yesterday at the Cenderawasih University campus.

One was found in a stack of books in the building where
elementary school teachers are trained, while the other was found
in the office of one of the teaching staff, Antara reported.

The fact-finding team, whose members include local military
and police personnel and a number of the university's lecturers
and students, has been trying to determine the direction from
which the bullets were fired.

They have also questioned several students who claim to have
seen the shootings that happened on July 3, 1998 shortly after
the conclusion of a free-speech forum on the campus.

The victims were Cenderawasih University student Steven
Suripaty and Kotaraja junior high school student Korina Onim.
Both are still in the hospital.

One intelligence officer was also beaten during the incident.
He later died.

Armen said that the team would continue to search for new
evidence and that their findings would eventually be submitted to
the Irian Jaya military commander.

"So we really have not yet come to any conclusion whatsoever
about the case," he said.

Cenderawasih University's coordinator of the fact-finding
team, Elly Lewerisa, said the university representatives on the
team consisted of five lecturers and two students. (mds)