Moluccan drag the state to court to 'The Point'

According to their lawyer, Liesbeth Zegveld, there is ample evidence that Max Papilaja and Hansina Uktolseja upon termination of the hijacking were executed by Marines from nearby.

The state is summoned to a meeting on December 23 at the court in The Hague. The relatives want the court passing judgment on the liability of the state. This is necessary then to determine compensation, although that is not the main purpose according to Zegveld.

"It is not up to the executive, which has a monopoly on violence, to pass on debt, let alone about life and death. In a rule of law that judgment to the court. By taking the law into their own hands a judgment by Max Papilaja and Hansina Uktolseja execute, the state has violated the most basic principles of law, "said Zegveld.

Independent Moluccan republic

Earlier concluded the human rights lawyer on autopsy reports and a report from the Forensic Laboratory of Justice that some Moluccan hijackers were killed in the storming of the hijacked train close by marines while they were already out and offered no resistance.

The train at the Point was on May 23, 1977 hijacked by nine Moluccan young people: eight men and one woman. They wanted action with their attention to the struggle for an independent Moluccan republic, the RMS. After twenty days were special units of the Marine Corps forcibly stop the train hijacking. Six train hijackers and two hostages were killed in the assault.

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