---------------------------------------------------------- FREE for JOIN Indonesia Daily News Online via EMAIL: go to: http://www.indo-news.com/subscribe.html - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - Dengan mengClick banner sponsor anda menyumbang Rp. 1000,- untuk HomePage IndoNews. ---------------------------------------------------------- From: hasanrs Setelah membantai ratusan ummat Islam dan membakar ribuan rumah dan toko sehingga ribuan ummat Islam sampai exodus kembali ke daerahnya seperti Sulawesi Selatan, orang2 Kristen bukannya minta maaf malah memfitnah bahwa ummat Islamlah yang membantai ummat Kristen. Sudah jatuh, tertimpa tangga pula. Sudah dibantai, ummat Islam malah difitnah sebagai pembantai oleh pendeta Gereja. Inikah yang namanya ajaran kasih Kristiani? Shame on you! Berikut tulisan seorang teman yang memforward berita dari NYT yang memutar balikan fakta: Salam! Sampai kapan koran Amerika bisa fair. Provokasi tidak datang dari dalam negeri, tapi juga lewat konspirasi internasional seperti ini. Saya mendoakan semoga "Para Pattimura Muda" di bumi Ambon Manise maupun Nasrani Indonesia di AS ini tidak terpengaruh berita tersebut. Bisa jadi kita dikeroyok... :-) Gawat, man..:-) Apa komentar Anda ttg Berita The New York Times di bawah ini? Wass, A Friend ############ 40 Christians Killed in Revenge Riot in an Indonesian Village By THE NEW YORK TIMES AMBON, Indonesia -- At least 40 Christian villagers, including women and children, were killed in Indonesia last week, reportedly by a mob of Muslims seeking revenge for earlier clashes, officials and a local Roman Catholic priest said on Monday. The Rev. Cornelius Bohm, a Dutch-born priest based in Ambon, said the attack occurred in Telagakodok, 25 miles north of Ambon, situated on an island of the same name in the Moluccas, after Muslims in a nearby town learned that mosques had been burned in Ambon at the outset of the clashes last Tuesday. The official death toll from five days of rioting, which spread to outlying areas around Ambon and the neighboring island of Senana, now stands at more than 50, although local church and government officials say the final death toll could be much higher. With more than 5,000 soldiers and policemen deployed to restore order, thousands of people who sought sanctuary in army and police compounds last week are returning home to this once picturesque port town, parts of which look like a war zone. Along the waterfront among the ruins of the gutted three-story fish market, dogs scavenged in in piles of garbage, burned out kiosks and crates of rotten lobster. Municipal tractors and trucks were clearing roads choked with tons of debris, including burned tire barricades and shells of burned cars and motorbikes. Universities, schools, banks, shops and clinics remain closed, causing food shortages and creating fears of public health problems, officials said. The town is under military curfew, and the first group of journalists was allowed to visit on Monday to view the damage. The road between the airport and town passes through some of the worst-hit areas. Kelly Latuheru, 46, a Christian, emerged from the ruins of his home in the village of Nania, where in better times about 1,000 Muslims and Christians lived together harmoniously. Almost the entire village has been burned. "People from outside came here and started smashing things up," he said. "They went away, and we thought it was safe, but they came back and burned my home." Bohm, who has spent 32 years in the region, said the military had been sent to Telagakodok. Details of the killings, on Thursday, emerged last week when villagers approached another Catholic priest. All the victims were Christian emigres from the southeastern part of the region and included one pregnant woman, the priest said he had been told. He said other people had been decapitated or speared and hacked to death. His account was confirmed by a senior government official, who asked not to be identified. Residents and police and government officials said that at the height of the rioting, an unknown number of people were beaten to death near the waterfront and their bodies thrown into the sea. At the military police compound, 70 Muslims from 10 families have been taking shelter for a week from Christian gangs. Long-simmering animosity to migrants from other islands is a major cause of the Ambon violence. But some church leaders say Muslim and Christian communities, whose members have lived in near harmony on Ambon for decades, have been forced to take sides after other recent religious clashes. Indonesia's worst economic recession in 30 years, a sharp increase in law-and-order problems after student-led riots in Jakarta and the resignation of President Suharto have all contributed to the instability. Tuesday, January 26, 1999 Reply ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 1 Feb 1999 jam 04:40:07 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
