JAKARTA: Indonesian prosecutors yesterday charged 11 military officers with gross human rights abuses for their alleged roles in the massacre of more than 30 Muslim protesters in 1984 during the rule of former president Suharto.
The Tanjung Priok trials which opened yesterday are the second major case to be taken on by Indonesia's ad hoc human rights tribunal, set up in early 2002.
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