Six Terror Suspects Killed by Indonesian Police

(Jakarta, Indonesia) On Saturday, Indonesian Police raided an Islamist hideout on Sumatra island and killed four terrorist suspects. On Sunday, police offed two more.

Four suspects were killed and a policeman injured in a gunbattle on Saturday on an oil-palm plantation in Dolok Sagala village in North Sumatra province, provincial police chief Insp. Gen. Oegroseno said.

Two more were killed on Sunday, he said in an update to reporters.

“The [sixth] suspect was shot dead after he tried to throw a hand grenade at the police. The grenade then exploded near him,” he added.

Earlier, he said the suspects had put up a fight during the raid and police had “fired a warning shot but they continued to resist.”

Meanwhile,

An Indonesian minister on Monday urged security forces to capture terror suspects alive unless they are armed or resist arrest, an apparent attempt to answer critics who say an unnecessarily high number of suspects are killed by anti-terror police.

The comments by Human Rights Minister Patrialis Akbar came after six suspected Islamic militants were gunned down and seven arrested during joint police and army operations over the weekend in Sumatra.

Apparently, the kill-to-capture ratio is too high -- one death for every four arrests. Human rights activists are concerned.