ABC AUSTRALIA, 14/01/2003 19:16:28
Papua's deputy police chief replaced
A senior police officer in Indonesia's Papua province who implicated soldiers in an
ambush near the Freeport mine says he has been transferred to Jakarta.
Brigadier General Raziman Tarigan says he has been assigned a new post at police
headquarters in Jakarta.
He says he has been replaced as Papua's deputy police chief by General
Commissioner Tommy Jacobus.
General Tarigan denies his transfer is connected to his revelation of possible military
involvement in the August ambush near the US-owned Freeport gold and copper mine.
Army officials have previously blamed the ambush on separatist Free Papua
Movement rebels.
A spokesman for the Papuan human rights group Els-Ham Papua Barat, Alberth
Rumbekwan, says he suspects General Tarigan was replaced because he had
implicated the Indonesian military in several violent incidents in Papua.
He says the deputy police chief was very brave to resolve cases involving Indonesia's
armed forces.
14/01/2003 19:16:28 | ABC Radio Australia News
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