Indonesian anti-terror squad kills 6 suspects
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An elite anti-terrorism police squad killed six suspected militants and arrested another at a house near the Indonesian capital, a police spokesman said yesterday.
Intelligence from earlier arrests allowed police to storm hideouts in Ciputat on Jakarta’s outskirts in an investigation into an alleged plot to bomb the Myanmar embassy and a Buddhist temple, said National Police spokesman Brigadier General Boy Rafli Amar.
The 9-hour shootout started late Tuesday and ended yesterday. Amar said those killed had refused to surrender and had fired guns and lobbed homemade bombs at security forces, injuring one police officer in the leg.
Human rights groups have criticized the US-funded squad, known as “Densus 88,” saying it was not trying to take suspects alive.
Critics alleged that the suspected militants were victims of extrajudicial killings.
Amar said the men were suspected of being part of a group involved in robberies used to fund terrorist activities.
They also were linked to terrorist group led by Abu Wardah Santoso in Poso, a flashpoint of terrorism in Central Sulawesi where a Muslim-Christian conflict killed at least 1,000 people from 1998 to 2002.
“There is a strong indication that they were involved in a series of police killings,” Amar said, adding police found at least six homemade bombs at the house.
Officers were trying to determine whether the men were connected to an alleged plot in May against the Myanmar embassy in retaliation for attacks on Muslims in that country.
“There are printouts of addresses of 20 to 30 Vihara (Buddhist temples) we believed to be their targets,” Amar said.
In August, a small bomb exploded outside a Buddhist temple packed with praying devotees in Jakarta, injuring one person.
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