JAKARTA: An Indonesian military court in the restive Papua region handed down this week jail sentences to four soldiers over their roles in the brutal murder of four civilians, a court document showed. The victims had been trying to buy weapons from the soldiers last August, but when the deal went awry the
JAKARTA: An Indonesian military court in the restive Papua region handed down this week jail sentences to four soldiers over their roles in the brutal murder of four civilians, a court document showed.
The victims had been trying to buy weapons from the soldiers last August, but when the deal went awry they were killed, with their mutilated bodies put into sacks and thrown into a river near the city of Timika, authorities said.The court in Papua found on Wednesday four guilty of premeditated murder, with two receiving life terms and the other two a 15-year and a 20-year prison sentence, the court document showed.The men were fired from the military.
The military has faced accusations of human rights abuses in Papua, which it has denied, but investigations into such allegations are rare., a separatist group in the region. A spokesperson for the TPNPB last year called on the government to hold the perpetrators accountable for the killings or risk further violence.
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