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  06 April, 2002 07:31:59 AM


Tempo Magazine - April 2 - 8, 2002 

Cover Story: Theys' Heart and Aristoteles 

ALOT of peculiarities surround the death of Theys Hiyo Eluay. Two versions are given for his death. On Sunday, November 11, 2001, Adj. Com. Daud Sihombing, chief of the Jayapura police, told members of the media that Theys was strangled to death. The next day, Doctor Clemens Manyakori, director of the Jayapura General Hospital, reported that Theys died of asphyxiation 
as indicated by sperm in his pants. He did not die from strangulation. 

The doctors' report has since become a polemic. There were suggestions that Theys' heart be brought to a police forensic laboratory in Makassar, South Sulawesi, for examination. But the Theys family refused. Strangely, after two months of his father's burial, Boy Eluay found out that Theys' heart was kept by his stepmother, Yaneke Eluay. The son and mother have since not been on speaking terms. When contacted by TEMPO, Yaneke refused to make any comment. 

Another peculiarity relates to Ismail Nalli, a resident of Koya Tengah-a transmigration area where Theys' body was found-who reported what he saw to the police. Nalli was later hauled off by members of Kopassus to their headquarters in Hamadi where he reportedly was forced to keep his mouth shut and not make public what he had told the police. 

Aristoteles, Theys' driver and nephew, has since disappeared. He was last reported calling Yaneke by telephone telling her of what had happened to her husband. Early last month the National Investigation Commission disinterred what looked like graves near the Kopassus headquarters, but no bodies were found, It's still unclear whether Aristoteles is still alive. 

The fact that Theys' car could easily enter the Koya Tengah area through two heavily guarded checkpoints is also peculiar. "The perpetrators are clearly members of Kopassus," says Jhon Rumbiak, supervisor Elsham Papua. But, he adds, the men only carried out orders from Jakarta where Theys was considered a danger to national integrity. 

Wens Manggut 

   

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