The Jakarta Post, 7/27/2007 12:20:13 AM
Indonesia court sentences 17 terror suspects
JAKARTA(AP): A dozen Christian men were sentenced toup to 14 years in jail
Thursday for beating to death and then beheading two Muslims to avenge the
executions of three Christians in Indonesia last year.
Five other Christians received eight-year terms for burying the pair, who were set upon
by a mob as they drove though a Christian neighborhood on Sulawesi island a day
after the Sept. 22 executionsof Fabianus Tibo and two other Christian militants.
The three men had been found guilty of leading a Christian militia that killed at least
70 Muslims during a religious war on the island between 1999 and 2002 that led to the
deaths of at least 1,000 people from both faiths.
The South Jakarta District Court found the 17 men guilty of violating anti-terror laws.
"It has been proven that they carried out acts of terror together and tried to hide the
crime by hiding the bodies," said head judge Ahmad Subari. (***)
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