Dom in Aceh leaving a trauma for the victims of rape

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The TPF Human Rights Violations and the Restoration of North Aceh investigating the Samalanga region on Wednesday (16/9) found various sad cases. Among the rape of several women by officers. In addition to physical torture that causes lifelong disability.

The A-I team, who scoured two points in Samalanga, managed to record six women who were still young girls who became victims of violent outbursts of officers who served during operations in the western region of Aceh Utara. Women victims of rape among them experienced Sham, residents Blang Panyang Samalanga. In 1990, Sham's 20-year-old girl was forced by two officers in her own house, while her father was tortured on charges of being a GPK. As a result of trauma, then Sham who had married and gave birth to two children should also be separated from the husband. Currently the widow of two children with the burden of suffering was forced to cross the world by becoming a basket of bread in the region of Bireuen to support two children who are still a child.

The victim of rape was also experienced by Ny Kartini (19 years old), the widow of three children who live in poverty, in 1990 the house was visited by two army officers (according to the citizens of Infantry Battalion 123/125 at that time commander Sinaga). "Where husband, I answered is dead," said Kartini when visited by two persons. Then the two men held him and stripped his clothes. "I was dueled, but I was against, then they hit my thigh with a gun, then raped him," said the poor woman, admitting she still felt the pain and resentment for the security forces.

More apprehensive as experienced by a girl (her name and her village is kept secret with ethical considerations-red) in Samalanga sub-district. The woman, who was still 16 years old, was rotated brutally by two officers in front of her mother and her younger siblings. The woman who when met again pregnant third child, initially not willing to reveal that he was one of the victims of rape

The woman only remembered the day of disaster was Sunday at around 11:00 pm. In their stilt house about 100 meters from the village road, there was his mother and two younger brothers who were only six and five years old. Then came two uniformed soldiers with guns. Without getting wet straight up to her house, her mother and sister were expelled to go down to the kitchen, while the girl was held. "We were very frightened, the soldier fired into the attic and down six times, we did not dare move," his mother said.

According to the woman's confession, the person started a weapon because he was struggling. Then after the second one vent his satanic desires, to leave her in a state of helplessness. By now the woman had married a widower with four children in her neighboring village.

The woman's father was also subjected to torture when Blang Panyang residents were gathered in the field by ABRI troops. Residents are submerged, ordered to crawl and other torture. While the old people collected in Meunasa Blang Panyang. They escaped torture by having to pay their lives for Rp 30,000 each, since then for Blang Panyang residents known as the "30,000" group.

Rape cases in the village are not all that can be revealed. Because there are some women who are said to be victims are not willing to report it. "Let God give them a reply," said one woman who did not want to be named.

While in the village of Ulee Kareng, District Samalanga, rape act of unscrupulous elements that among others hit the victim Ny Warni Ahmad. Another victim, Nur (20), his father Ahmad Sulaiman suffered severe torture for months to the present time lost memory. Their homes were destroyed after being burnt down by the authorities in 1991, and their two brothers were shot by ABRI on GPK charges in 1991 and 1993 respectively, while a younger brother died of trauma from the terror of security forces. Nur is now officially a poor widow with two children after her husband has not heard since some four years ago.

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Sjamaun Gaharu: Investigate the Riot In Aceh

(BRP) The apparatus need not be afraid and do not be silent. To investigate the riot in Lhokseumawe, North Aceh and Idi, East Aceh, so that such incident will not happen again in "Serambi Mekkah" area, asked Maj. Gen. (ret) Sjamaun Gaharu.

The former Commander-I / Iskandar Muda affirmed that the riots that occurred in these two areas were not caused by a single movement or spontaneity of the masses, but were mobilized by people who wanted chaos or had a specific purpose in Aceh.

"With the emergence of such chaos or unrest, they will benefit for their personal interests," Sjamaun Gaharu told Waspada, who visited his house on Monday (14/9) in Seutui area of ​​Banda Aceh.

"To benefit these people create an atmosphere of insecurity and peace in Aceh, they want the problem to go on, so it must be solved so it will not happen again," said Sjamaun, who still looks strong in his wheelchair.

How thoroughly desirable? "It's all done, it's finished, whether it's a crime that has to be investigated and prosecuted or there is an unforgivable act, it's forgiven," he said again.

At the time he was the commander of the military, Sjamaun explained that the approach taken is to understand humanity through the application of the pattern to Aceh-an. "It was a wise principle that the pattern is so powerful that until now all the problems are buried, it does not arise anymore, for example DI / TII problem, it's finished," he asked.

Unlike the present, the problem has disappeared again, as the emergence of the movement led by Hasan Tiro, unfinished, other problems arise, he continued while asserting that between the movement of Hasan Tiro with DI / TII no relationship at all. "Daud Beureueh (DI / TII leader) himself stated that he did not join Hasan Tiro's movement."

"In the past, when I became Commander-in-Chief, the Military Region was SOB, the ruling military, and the former military commander in applying the pattern according to the will of his own people, but now I see not, so in my day no one dead, "he explained recounting the old days.

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