#1 It gets better: Separatists in the troubled province of Aceh yesterday accused the Indonesian military of forcing a captured rebel to bomb a New Year's Eve concert, killing 11 people. Regional rebel commander Ishak Daud said the man accused of the bombing, Syaiful Amri, 25, was a captured militant who had become an Indonesian military puppet and was forced to take part in the attack. He said the bombing, in East Aceh's Peureulak, was a military plot to discredit the rebels. "Syaiful Amri was indeed a member of GAM (the rebel Free Aceh Movement) but he was arrested on November 28 at the Gajah river," Commander Daud said. "We believe TNI (the Indonesian military) used a GAM member in the explosion in that place, to scapegoat GAM."
Although the bomber's body initially was said to be too mutilated to be recognised, Aceh military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Yani Basuki said it was identified at the weekend by visitors to the hospital who wanted to view the corpse.
Playing the "We wuz framed" card. |