Tibo to be taken for reconstruction

Ruslan Sangadji
The Jakarta Post
Palu, Central Sulawesi

Police will immediately stage a reconstruction of the killings in a riot in Sintuwu Lembah village in Poso regency which occurred between 2000 to 2001 involving three death-row convicts in the controversial Poso riot case Fabianus Tibo, Marinus Riwu and Dominggus da Silva.

"We will bring them to Poso for a reconstruction of the crime next week," Central Sulawesi Police chief Oegroseno said Friday, without specifying a date.

Oegroseno was hopeful that with the reconstruction the police would find out who were involved in the crime and reveal the masterminds behind the violence in which 2,000 people were killed.

The provincial police are now coordinating with the local prosecutor's office and are asking the cooperation of the public to make the reconstruction a success.

Oegroseno said the reconstruction would automatically postpone the convicts' executions. "We're doing it for the sake of upholding the law and to accommodate people's demands to resolve earlier cases," asserted Oegroseno.

The provincial police are also in the midst of exhuming a number of mass graves discovered due to a confession of Herry Mengkawa, who was convicted in the Poso riot case and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment. ***