Bush Officials Cover-Up Indonesian Military Role in Murder of U.S.
Citizens
April 9th, 2007
Evidence of Indonesian military involvement in the deaths of two
American citizens has been suppressed, according to a re****t released
today by Joyo Indonesian News Service and Pantau Foundation. U.S.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and other senior administration
officials, have been misleading Congress and the public about a 2002
assault near the gold and copper mine of Free****t McMoRan (FCX) in
the remote Indonesian province of Papua. The Bush Administration sees
Indonesia, the world?s most populous Muslim nation, as a key ally in
the Global War on Terrorism.
?It?s sad to see that U.S. terrorism policy has once again sacrificed
truth and justice,? said Andreas Harsono, a journalist of the Pantau
media group, who co-authored the re****t.
F.B.I. agents entrapped at least one innocent man, Reverend Isak
Onawame, in connection with this murder. Rev. Onawame, an elderly
human rights advocate, was detained by the F.B.I. in Papua and
delivered to Indonesian custody where he was strip searched, deprived
of sleep, and interrogated. On November 7th, 2006, an Indonesian
court found Rev. Onawame guilty of supplying attackers with food,
based on a false confession extracted during interrogation. Six other
men, including Antonius Wamang, who has admitted to participating in
the attack, were given sentences of 18 months to life in jail during
the same trial.
?By all accounts Wamang?s group only had three guns,? said co-author
S. Eben Kirksey, a doctoral candidate at the University of California
at Santa Cruz. The re****t authors obtained a copy of a classified
Indonesian ballistics re****t, which is being released to the public
for the first time today. Through microscopic analysis of bullet
fragments, this ballistics re****t concluded that a total of 13 guns
were fired at the scene of the crime.
?We?re the first to publicly identify a smoking gun. In fact, we have
unearthed evidence of 10 smoking guns,? continued Kirksey. ?There was
another group of shooters wielding enormous firepower.? Eyewitnesses,
and logs of vehicle traffic through road checkpoints, place
Indonesian soldiers at the scene of the crime.
The full text of the re****t, ?Murder at Mile 63?, and the Indonesian
ballistics re****t, is available, on the websites of the East Timor
Action Network (http://www.etan.org/)
and TAPOL?-The Indonesian Human
Rights Campaign (http://tapol.gn.apc.org/).
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