Deserters on the Rampage
Tuesday, June 4, 2002
HERE is one of the real enemies of peace in Maluku: soldiers who are AWOL from their own units. The general public knows them as ordinary soldiers, but the TNI (Indonesian Military) brass prefer to call them deserters: troops, they say, who commit insubordination and operate beyond the orders of their superiors. Which one of those contentions is true is not clear yet. The fact is that none of those soldiers has been arrested yet, let alone i
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