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Text your say: Sentences for murderous soldiers
Your comments on members of the Armyâs Special Forces (Kopassus) receiving between four months and 11 years imprisonment for the premeditated murder of four civilian prisoners in March
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our comments on members of the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) receiving between four months and 11 years imprisonment for the premeditated murder of four civilian prisoners in March.
Justice has not been served. The military court must free members of the Kopassus because they are not killing civilian prisoners but murderers. Today they kill Special Forces easily, tomorrow, they may kill you.
E. Nurdin
Jakarta
The military court's sentence of 11 years imprisonment and dismissal from the Army for the main perpetrator is of course too lenient.
To shoot to kill unarmed civilians contained in a prison cell does not need professionalism and has nothing to do with chivalry.
A special trained commando should be executing risky and highly complicated military operations instead of shooting at sitting ducks.
From the point of view of the perpetrator and his superiors the sentence is of course too harsh.
Soebagjo Soetadji
Jakarta
The Kopassus officers carried out the execution of four detainees of the Indonesian government.
This is fully premeditated murder and since the victims were already in custody pending trial this is a premeditated murder aggravated by contempt toward the Indonesian justice.
However, the prosecutors do not seem to be interested in whether the murderers received their orders from the higher echelons of Kopassus.
Sabar Paijo
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