Jakarta – A group of Muslim students staged a protest at the defense ministry Friday, demanding new investigations into a riot that left more than a dozen Muslims dead in the Indonesian capital 14 years ago. Waving banners and posters, about 100 students accused ex-President Suharto, former Vice President Try Sutrisno and former Armed Forces Commander Benny Murdani of being responsible for the killings. All three are retired army generals.

On Sept. 12, 1984, soldiers opened fire on protesters demanding the release of several Muslims arrested following a series of anti-government sermons at mosques in northern Jakarta.

Some reports say the clash in Jakarta's impoverished port area of Tanjung Priok left scores dead and hundreds missing. Murdani, then armed forces commander, said 18 people were killed and nobody was missing. Sutrisno was then chief of Jakarta Military Command.

The students of the Islamic Preacher Institute, said an immediate probe into the case would serve as proof that the current government under President B.J. Habibie was not a continuation of the authoritarian Suharto regime. Demands for independent investigations of alleged human rights violations, including killings by the military, have flared up since Habibie came to power.