The Jakarta Post, 8/9/2006 11:31:12 AM
Three people to be executed over 2000 violence in Poso
TENTENA, Central Sulawesi (AP): Three Christian men found guilty of inciting a
bloody outbreak of fighting with Muslims in eastern Indonesia in 2000 are to be
executed on Saturday, prosecutorshave told the men's family.
Fabianus Tibo, Dominggus da Silva and Marinus Riwu were found guilty in 2001 in
months of violence on Sulawesi island between Muslim and Christian gangs that left
killed around 1,000 people.
Tibo's son, Robertus, said prosecutors informed him by letter on Tuesday that his
father and the two other men would be killed in the early hours of Saturday morning by
firing squad.p>The president has rejected granting clemency sought by the three
people as their last efforts to escape from shooting squad. (**)
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