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TNI to hand over torture cases to tribunal

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Jakarta Post - January 6, 2011

Jakarta – The Indonesian Military or TNI said on Wednesday said they would forward alleged torture cases against Papuans to the military tribunal.

"We will have the decision later, at the military tribunal," Lt. Gen. Noer Muis, the TNI's inspector general, said as reported by tempointeraktif.com.

The National Commission for Human Rights publicized their report on Tuesday on military members' torture of Papuans. They said the three cases from last year were "serious human rights violations".

One of the three cases went to a military tribunal in Jayapura, which punished the perpetrators in March last year for "undisciplined acts". Four soldiers interrogated dozens of villagers about a separatist, kicking and beating them in the process.

The other two cases, recorded on video, are more violent, involving dissected stomachs and burned genitals.

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