Indonesian Soccer Stadium Deaths Caused by Tear Gas Use: Chief Minister
The police and the Indonesian Football Association are equally responsible for the incident.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com \- Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs, Mahfud MD, has blamed the loss of more than 130 lives in the Kanjuruhan Stadium stampede, Malang, East Java province on Oct. 1, on the use of tear gas by the police. "Now, I don't care how much of the deadly chemical is [contained in tear gas], it doesn't matter. Because it wasn't the chemical that caused it, but the [use of the tear gas itself] that caused people to panic and then the stampede and die," the chief minister said on Thursday, Oct. 20. The police and the Indonesian Football Association are eq...