(Retype Washington Post) 40+ munitions tear gas, 200+ died: Kanjuruhan Massacre
Despite Bellingcat, NYTimes, AP, and another global media investigate the killed of Shireen Abu Akleh (Palestine - US Citizen, Al Jazeera journo) by Israel Military/Israeli Defence Forces, but the first ever “very detailed” forensic already created by Washington Post before another media set a separate investigation. Even, in twitter, the reportage/investigation of Shireen Abu Akleh “pinned tweet” by WaPo / Washington Post from June-July 2022.
Now, Washington Post already set an another investigation: Kanjuruhan.
A massive barrage of tear gas munitions fired by Indonesian police at football fans prompted the fatal crush in Malang last weekend. Keele's University Professor Clifford Stott reviewed videos from the night and looked at what went wrong.
WaPo investigation reveals the Indonesia police's indiscriminate use of teargas/nonlethal munitions at an Indonesian football stadium, and how it led to fatal crushes killing at least 130 people, probably reach 200+. "Stadium workers did not have time to open all the gates," said a Football Association representative (PSSI). But the game had been over for 11 minutes when police started firing tear gas. Four human rights advocates told the Washington Post that the question of police culpability should focus in large part on what’s captured here: The decision to fire tear gas directly into packed stands.
The review — based on an examination of more than 100 videos and photographs, interviews with 11 witnesses and analyses by crowd control experts and civil rights advocates — reveals how the police’s use of tear gas in response to several hundred fans entering the field caused a huge surge at the southern end of Kanjuruhan football stadium, where survivors say the bulk of the deaths occurred. Several doors were locked, witnesses said, further fueling the panic. This was confirmed by the Indonesia’s president, Jokowi, who has ordered a safety review of stadiums in the country.
Lead by Rebecca Tan (SEA Bureau Chief of Washington Post), she has anchored an amazing, devastating investigation that is worth your time. She has covered two horrible, massive breaking news stories -- the stadium disaster in Indonesia—then taken the time to write stories that show, awfully and intimately, their toll.
Clifford Stott, a professor at Keele University in Britain who studies the policing of sports fans, reviewed videos provided by The Post and said that what happened at Kanjuruhan was a direct result of police action combined with poor stadium management.” “To fire tear gas into the stands when the gates are locked is likely to lead to nothing else other than the massive amounts of fatalities,” added Clifford Stott,. “And that’s exactly what’s occurred.”