| Gross violations of human rights continue |
2nd August 2007
Online petition: http://www.petitiem aluku.tk
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Pressrelease
Moordrecht (The Netherlands) , July 28th, 2007
Subject: Gross violations of human rights continue
unabated in the Moluccas (Indonesia)
On June 29th 2007, a group of about 30 unregistered
dancers succeeded to bypass the very high security
procedures of the commemoration of the 14th Family Day
in Ambon (Maluku) and peacefully express the
indefeasible right of the people of the South Moluccas
by unfurled the banned separatist flag of the South
Moluccas Republic (RMS) in front of Indonesian
president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
As confessed the Indonesian agressor reacted with
unprecedented cruelty.
President Yudhoyono commissioned to tackle hard the
peaceful RMS-activists and punished them as terrorists
among other by the US-trained and equipped elite
police counter-terrorism team, known locally as
Detachment 88 (DENSUS 88).
The previous weeks the Moluccan activists were kept on
the bases of police force and army at Tantui and
Perigi Lima, where they have been molested in a
bestial manner and forced to remain naked in their
warrants. Most of them suffer because of internal
wounds, contusions and hemorrhages. In these
conditions they have to sleep on the ground. None of
them has so far received medical care or sufficient
food and beverage from those who molested them (the
TNI, POLRI and DENSUS 88).
Between June 29th and July 11th 2007 the Moluccan
political prisoners have been refused every visit of
family, lawyers and journalists. Everyone was sent
away at the entrance of the prisons. After their
arrest other arrests followed: two RMS activists from
the village Galala which have hoisted RMS flags, a
person who ran with
RMS-colours on his pulse of which he did not know that
it were RMS-colours, two civil servants who were
suspected of involvement and the village head of
Hutumuri.
With the arrest on July 21st and July 22nd 2007 of
Pieter Latumahina in Masohi (Ceram Island) and Junus
Mario Litiloly in Ambon the number of imprisoned
political activists became 44. Also these two
activists are subjected to the same severe harassment.
We, the Moluccan Community in the Netherlands,
(gathered today in Moordrecht to attend the Tjakalele
- Moluccan traditional war dance- Solidarity Festival)
are deeply concerned about the fate of the 44
imprisioned activists, and we therefore urgently call
upon the international media, independent journalists
and representatives of Human Rights Organisations to
visit the imprisoned Moluccan political activists at
TANTUI in Ambon and PERIGI LIMA for an impartial and
independent investigation / media coverage.
And last but not least, we the Moluccan Community in
the Netherlands firmly demand the whole world:
1. immediate and unconditional release of all Moluccan
Political Activists;
2. to judge and to stop Indonesia for its violations
of Moluccan human rights;
3. to not ignore the Moluccans cry for help, freedom
and independency.
Sincerely,
Quote: " Indonesia claims to have become a democracy,
but democracies don't put people in prison for
peaceful expression."
Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
Quote: "The government should immediately release all
those convicted under these laws, whose very essence
is to limit free expression in Indonesia." - Charmain
Mohamed, Indonesia researcher at Human Rights Watch
Enclosure:
LIST OF ARRESTED RMS ACTIVISTS (dated July 25th 2007)
Prisoners in Tantui (11 men)
1. APONNO AGUS
2. BATJERAN HERMANUS
3. HENDRIKS SEMUEL
4. JOHANIS PITER
5. MALAWAUW DANIEL
6. MANUPUTTY BERCE
7. SAIYA ARENS
8. SINAY ELIAS
9. TANATE ALEXANDER
10. TITAHENA BENY
11. SYARANAMUAL MELKIANUS
12. LATUMAHINA PIETER
13. LITILOLY JUNUS MARIO
Prisoners in Polres (31 men)
1. AKIHARY DENNY
2. AKIHAHRY FREDY
3. HENDRIKS LEONARD
4. LITAMAHUPUTTY ABNER
5. MALAWAUW ALEX
6. MALAWAUW FILIP
7. MALAWAUW HERMANUS (dead)
8. RADJAWANE FERDINAN
9. RAHAYAN PETRUS
10. RIRY YEKI
11. RIRY MERSI
12. SAIYA MARTHE alias Boby
13. SAIYA FERJON
14. SAIYA YEPTA
15. SAIYA JOHAN
16. SAIYA JORDAN
17. SAIYA STEVIE
18. SAIYA PIETER
19. SAIYA ABRAHAM
20. SAIYA JOHNANIS
21. SAIYA PITER
22. SAIYA RUBEN
23. SINAY JOSIAS
24. SINAY MELKY
25. SINAY JHONY alias Jon
26. SAPAKOLY JUSUF
27. TAHAPARY STEVANUS
28. TETERISSA JOHAN
29. TUAPATTINAYA REYMON
30. USMANY ALBERT
31. WAAS FERDINAND Villagehead of HUTUMURI
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