‘Above the law’: Indonesia stampede puts focus on police force ...Middle East

JAKARTA: The Indonesian stadium stampede that left 131 people dead has sparked anger against the nation's police, whom critics have long accused of using excessive violence.Police, who described the unrest on Saturday night as “riots”, said they tried to force supporters to return to the stands and fired tear gas after they invaded the pitch.But survivors -- who had described the police as wielding batons and firing tear gas at helpless spectators -- accuse them of overreacting, which led to a crush that became one of the deadliest disasters in football history.Indonesia's police has, along with the military, been involved for decades in suppressing dissent, quelling riots, crushing radical

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