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PALU - Three death row prisoners convicted of leading a Christian militia in bloody violence against Muslims in Indonesia will be executed tomorrow, police said, announcing beefed-up security to head off any unrest. International rights groups, including Amnesty International, have argued that the trials were unfair and called for further investigations, while Pope Benedict XVI has appealed for clemency, but police said it would go ahead.
“The execution process will take place Thursday (tomorrow),” national police spokesman Paulus Purwoko told reporters, declining to reveal the precise time or location the firing squad would implement the punishment. Indonesia usually carries out executions in secret. Fabianus Tibo, Dominggus da Silva and Marianus Riwu were convicted in 2001 of leading a Christian militia against Muslims in religiously-divided Central Sulawesi.
The men’s lawyer said they had been notified of their impending executions. Islamic groups in the world’s most populous Muslim country have urged the government to proceed with the executions, but Indonesia’s Christian minority and other activists have protested. Provincial police chief Badroddin Haiti said a total of some 4,000 police, military and civilian auxiliary forces would be deployed to ensure calm. “All personnel are on alert and if there are unwanted actions, or actions tending toward anarchy, police will not hesitate to take repressive action,” he told reporters.
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