Indonesia: Seek Just Punishments for Military Murderers by HRW
Indonesian military prosecutors should appeal insufficient sentences
imposed on 12 Special Forces soldiers convicted in the murders of four
detained criminal suspects, Human Rights Watch said today.
On September 5 and 6, 2013, a military court in Yogyakarta, central
Java, sentenced 12 members of the Special Forces Command (Komando
Pasukan Khusus, known as Kopassus) to prison terms of four months and 20
days up to 11 years for their roles in the execution-style killings of
four men in police detention on March 23, 2013.
The guilty verdicts -
ranging from failure to warn superiors of the plot to premeditated
murder - marked an important departure from the usual impunity given
Indonesian military personnel implicated in serious crimes, but the
sentences imposed on the three soldiers found most culpable did not
appear to match the gravity of the crimes.
Under Indonesian law,
premeditated murder permits a maximum sentence of life imprisonment,
which in practice constitutes 20 years.
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