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Bukit Sentang (Sentang Killing Field, or local call Hole of Hell) — Bukit Sentang is one the those places that was used as a killing field during the Indonesian military operation (DOM). Mobil authorities strongly deny that the oil company has been involved, because the they don't own any truck let alone having a land. However, the violence seems the last resort of the incompetence. Photo source: HMI (Islamic Student Association)  - Lhokseumawe, Acheh.
 
 
"Ismail Hasan Metareum, the Achenese who is the Chairman of the United Development Party (PPP), in addition to demanding that the ABRI leaders in charge should be interrogated, also demands the accountability of Ibrahim Hasan, the Governor of Acheh during the period of 1986 -1991 and 1991 - 1993. The application of DOM sattus in Acheh, according to Ismail, can't be separated from the role played by Ibrahim Hasan. He was the man behind the assignment of DOM status in Acheh. In 1990,.." go to article
 

 

MASS GRAVES
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"An estimated 39,000 people have disappeared since the region was placed under military occupation in 1980, according to local activists. In Bukit Sentang, after an estimated 150 bodies were found earlier this year, Baharuddin Lopa, secretary general of the Indonesian government-backed National Commission on Human Rights, said: ''This proves that Acheh has been a killing field''. (more story from The Asia Times, go>>)

 
"The commission secretary-general, Mr Baharuddin Lopa, said: ``It is clear there had been a massacre in Acheh. ``I don't want to hear any Government official pretend that the widespread killing of civilians during the (military) operations in Acheh never happened.'' ``Others were shoved into the grave and asked to lie side by side, like salted fish you see in the market, before their bodies were riddled with bullets,''." got to article
 
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