Getting Swept Away

Australian security forces carried out `sweeping' against Indonesian Muslims. Indonesia has criticized it.

November 12, 2002

What the Australian Security and Intelligence Organization (ASIO) and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) have done to Indonesian Muslim citizens has indeed gone too far. With the excuse of maintaining domestic security, their raids on a number of Indonesians who lived in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth exceeded all boundaries. Those Indonesians are suspected of being connected to Jamaah Islamiyah. The raids were carried out with excessive force

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