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| Papua Police conduct field inquiry into border shooting |
| 2002-12-30 |
| The Jakarta Post, Jayapura/Jakarta The Papua police conducted on Sunday an on-site investigation into Saturday's shooting which targeted three women, including the wife of a human rights activist who accused the military of involvement in the Aug. 31 ambush at an American-owned company, PT Freeport Indonesia. Motive, means, opportunity... The field inquiry team, led by Jayapura Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Totok Kasmiarto at the Wutung area bordering with Papua New Guinea (PNG), extracted several pieces of evidence from the scene: 20 projectiles and nine arrows. "Arrows?" "Yeah. If we leave some arrows at the site, then it looks like they were attacked by head hunters, not us." "Brilliant, Mahmoud! Brilliant!" In addition, the police investigation team also received other evidence, including 26 projectiles, a backpack and a man's pouch, collected by soldiers of the Bukit Barisan Military Command's 132nd Bima Sakti Task Force, who are stationed at the Papua-PNG border. "We still have to conduct further forensic tests to determine what weapons used in the attack," Totok said, adding that the police needed to test the collected projectiles as there was a similar attack on Dec. 16 on a vehicle carrying F.X. Soeryanto, head of the Papua's border agency. "But Mahmoud, what about the bullet holes?" "Use small caliber rounds. They'll never notice, boss!" |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |