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"According to senior Indonesian officials and police and details from government files, the US-backed Indonesian armed forces (TNI), now due for fresh American aid, assassinated a series of civilian activists during 2009."
They were part of a secret government program, "coordinated in part by an active-duty, US-trained Kopassus special forces General who has just acknowledged on the record that his TNI men had a role in the killings."
The news comes ahead of Obama's expected announcement of new military aid, falsely claiming TNI and Kopassas "no longer murder civilians." They always did and now do, according to a senior Indonesian official (unnamed for his safety), speaking out because he opposes the practice.
"TNI still practices political murder." Yet America rewards it, despite being legally bound not to and to provide Congress with relevant information.
Verified incidents include:
-- "a series of assassinations and bombings in Aceh (where) elections were being contested by the historically pro-independence Partia Aceh (PA)," the renamed former GAM (Free Aceh) rebel movement.
In the run-up to the April elections, "At least eight PA activists were assassinated....according to officials with (specific) knowledge of the program" to suppress democratic speech in Aceh and throughout the country.
General Sunarko, the PANGDAM Aceh (TNI forces chief) coordinated the killings. He was recently "sent to Aceh by the President, Gen. Susilo, after having been the nationwide commander of Kopassas. (Previously, he was) chief of staff of Kostrad, the (TNI's) huge Strategic Reserve Command that operates across the archipelago and is headquartered in Jarkata...."
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