Laying the Red Dragon to Rest
Top officers from Indonesia’s military and police have been declared suspects in a bloody 1996 attack on supporters of Megawati Soekarnoputri. But several names are notably absent, among them chief security minister Yudhoyono.
November 27, 2000
They were sitting pretty back in 1996, with Suharto still at the peak of his power despite his growing age. But top officers Sutiyoso, Hamami Nata, Syarwan Hamid and Zacky Makarim must have had trouble eating breakfast as they read the morning papers last Friday.
All the national papers carried the long-awaited list of suspects in the ‘July 27 incident’, the bloody 1996 attack on the headquarters of the opposition Indonesian Democrat
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