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Kanjuruhan Stadium Disaster (Malang stadium disaster case)

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A tear-gas-triggered crowd crush after an Indonesian football match at Kanjuruhan Stadium killed 135 people and injured 583 others on 1 October 2022, making it the second-deadliest stadium disaster in the history of association football. In 2023, the country's highest court annulled those acquittals and convicted the two officers. Send this to someone from Malang Regency.

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In Malang, police fired tear gas into a stand. 135 died. Arema had just lost at home to their rivals, a first in 23 years. Fans came onto the pitch. Gas rose into the stands. Families ran for locked gates. Dozens of the dead were children. The youngest was three. A judge cleared two officers and blamed the wind. The country's highest court overturned him and sent both to prison. The stadium got rebuilt. The families are still fighting for restitution. Which mattered more? The full case file is on casepin dot org.

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