Indonesian Soldiers Ordered to Fire on Looters in the Wake of Sulawesi's Earthquake and Tsunami

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Estimates are that more than 1,500 are dead. A nearby volcano is erupting. So many bodies, they’re being put into mass graves.


And the Indonesian government isn’t fooling around.

Indonesian soldiers have been instructed to fire on people caught looting in the wake of a deadly 7.5-magnitude earthquake and tsunami as desperation for food, water and fuel grow, a military officer said Wednesday.

Authorities warned survivors against theft in Palu, a city in Indonesia’s central Sulawesi province that bore the brunt of the devastation and is still struggling to recover, Agence France-Presse reports.

“If there is looting again, we will quickly fire a warning shot and then shoot to immobilize,” Colonel Ida Dewa Agung Hadisaputra told AFP. Hadisaputra explained that soldiers had initially tolerated looting in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, when vital resources were badly needed, and aid in short supply.

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Guns Up, Don’t Loot

 

[Dan Stubbs]

Estimates are that more than 1,500 are dead. A nearby volcano is erupting. So many bodies, they’re being put into mass graves.


And the Indonesian government isn’t fooling around.

Indonesian soldiers have been instructed to fire on people caught looting in the wake of a deadly 7.5-magnitude earthquake and tsunami as desperation for food, water and fuel grow, a military officer said Wednesday.

Authorities warned survivors against theft in Palu, a city in Indonesia’s central Sulawesi province that bore the brunt of the devastation and is still struggling to recover, Agence France-Presse reports.

“If there is looting again, we will quickly fire a warning shot and then shoot to immobilize,” Colonel Ida Dewa Agung Hadisaputra told AFP. Hadisaputra explained that soldiers had initially tolerated looting in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, when vital resources were badly needed, and aid in short supply.

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Might be a good idea to drop the bods into the lava. Quicker.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Estimates are that more than 1,500 are dead. A nearby volcano is erupting. So many bodies, they’re being put into mass graves.


And the Indonesian government isn’t fooling around.

Indonesian soldiers have been instructed to fire on people caught looting in the wake of a deadly 7.5-magnitude earthquake and tsunami as desperation for food, water and fuel grow, a military officer said Wednesday.

Authorities warned survivors against theft in Palu, a city in Indonesia’s central Sulawesi province that bore the brunt of the devastation and is still struggling to recover, Agence France-Presse reports.

“If there is looting again, we will quickly fire a warning shot and then shoot to immobilize,” Colonel Ida Dewa Agung Hadisaputra told AFP. Hadisaputra explained that soldiers had initially tolerated looting in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, when vital resources were badly needed, and aid in short supply.

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Criminals Are Subhuman

Why fire a warning shot? And why not shoot to kill? Once again, "humane" considerations weaken the response required by the Survival Instinct. The least hint of mercy is a whisper of the Death Wish and must never be listened to.