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Police chief denies officers coerced refugees onto boat
Indonesia's police chief has denied allegations that officers forced asylum seekers onto an unseaworthy boat which sank on its way to Australia, leaving 374 people dead.
General Suroyo Bimantoro told reporters before a weekly cabinet meeting that "it is not true" that about 30 policemen in the town of Lampung coerced the passengers onto the boat.
Senior UN officials in Indonesia have called on the government to investigate allegations by the asylum seekers that police beat two off them and threatened to kill them if they did not get on the vessel last week.
The Defence Minister Matori Abdul Djalil said if it was true that police were involved in the case, then "stern measures must be taken."
10/25/01 6:47:54 PM | ABC Radio Australia News
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