Subject: Soldier on trial for Manatuto killing
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:58:41 +0100 (BST)
From: tapol@gn.apc.org (Tapol)Dili, MateBEAN, 26 June 1998
A soldier has gone on trial for killing a young East Timorese in Manatuto on 22 June.
The soldier, Sergeant Slamet, has been charged under article 336 of the Military Criminal
Code for taking a life for which the maximum sentence is fifteen years, plus dismissal
from the armed forces.
The accused is charged with using an FNC rifle to shoot at a truck that had been driven
to the spot by Herman. The victim was shot in the waist and the chest. The autopsy
revealed that a bullet had penetrated his spleen.
Following the murder, hundreds of people later protested by attacking the Manatuto
military command, the barracks and the local headquarters of Brimob, the special police
unit and the police headquarters in Manatuto. The protesters had demanded that the soldier
responsible be put on trial.
They also demanded that troops of battalion 315 from the West Java Siliwangi Division
should be withdrawn from East Timor.
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