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Minister to be interrogated over guns...
The Central Sulawesi Provincial Police insisted that they would immediately interrogate church minister Rev. Rinaldy Damanik who was declared a suspect for alleged possession of guns and ammunition without a permit.You usually don't expect ministers to be packing heat, do you? Brig. Gen. Zainal Abidin, chief of the provincial police, said that his office would deliver a second summons to the suspect to replace the previous letter which mistyped his identity. Damanik was declared a suspect following the seizure of 14 guns and ammunition from a car in which he was a passenger, while evacuating Christian villagers who were being massacred by Muslim extremists in the bloody assault on Mayumba Village in Morowali regency on Aug. 15. Now, wait a minute...! Damanik was not arrested when the weapons were first alleged to have been discovered because he was accompanied by hundreds of his supporters. The Christians were being massacred by Muslim extremists, and you orifices jump on the minister for having a gun in the car? How many Muslim extremists have been arrested? What about their guns, bombs, swords, axes, grenades, and other implements of destruction? What were they supposed to do? Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-09-02 |
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