This section provide information about
Acehnese experience under "Daerah Operasi Militer" (DOM, or Military
Operations Area) will be presented.
Various method has been used by Indonesian army (known as TNI/Polri
or ABRI) to terrorize Acehnese. TNI/Polri believe that torturing people is the
most effective way to control people so they can oppress them furthermore. The
methods including mutilation body parts (such as: ear, fingers, and nipple),
electric shock, drowning people in water pool, disappearance, extrajudicial
executions, etc.
You can find several articles that describe the method that
Indonesian army use to oppress Acehnese. The reports come from various
organizations and mass media.
Early report about military brutality in Aceh (unfortunately most of people
thought, at that time, its only a systematic effort by foreign NGO to discredit
Indonesian government, web-master):
Mass Murder in Aceh; A Call for Action
(from TAPOL, Tue Dec 18, 1990)
Human Rights
Abuses in Aceh
(from Asia Watch, December 27, 1990)
Continuing Human Rights Violations in Aceh (from
Asia Watch, June 19, 1991)
Commission of Inquiry Needed for Aceh (from
Asia Watch, Feb 19, 1992)
"Shock Therapy"
Restoring Order in Aceh, 1989-1993 (from Amnesty
International, Mon Aug 02 1993, 20.000 words)
Notes: this article
is the most comprehensive document about human
right abuse in Aceh from early 1990's.
More horrible story about Indonesian army
method to torture Acehnese.
A
Tortured Grandmother
(from The
Sydney Morning Herald, August 29, 1998)
Marwan Yatim's Story of Torture
(from Inside
Indonesia, January-March 1999)
Tragic Tale of A Good Soldier Betrayed for Gold (from South
China Morning Post, May 15th, 2000)
The post DOM fact findings uncover Indonesian
army barbaric action in Aceh:
Mass
Graves Begin to Reveal Scale of Atrocities in Indonesia (by Mike Head, from
WSWS.com, August 28, 1998)
The post DOM military
brutality and massacres:
(sorry......will come soon, meanwhile please check this
links)
Mysterious Torture and Killings
NGO Activist (WALHI) Tortured and Killed in Aceh (from
IFA, February 5, 2000)
