June 07, 1999
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| Southeast Asia Massacre By Indonesian army kills 38 By Alistair Hammond Bloomberg News Jakarta - Three days after Indonesian soldiers opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators in Aceh province, the revised death toll has risen to 38, with another 115 seriously wounded, the Jakarta Post reported. Thousands had gathered Monday to protest the Indonesian military's record of human rights abuses in the region, when soldiers were pelted with stones and started shooting into the crowd. Separately, an off- duty policeman was shot dead by two men on a motorbike as he was drinking a cup of coffee 16 kilometers from the site of the killings. The Indonesian army pledged in August to withdraw all non- local troops from Aceh Province - the site of alleged torture and killings by the military - where they've been fighting Islamic separatist rebels for decades, but that pledge was broken when a high-profile ceremony marking the withdrawal turned into an anti-army riot. | |||||||||
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