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**http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=5601
10 March, 2006
INDONESIA
Rising tension in Moluccas and Sulawesi
Fifteen big checkpoints have been set up in Palu. Meanwhile, in Ambon,
violence has followed tension between police and army troops.
Palu (AsiaNews) - The bomb which went off this morning outside a Hindu
temple in Poso, central Sulawesi, is only the latest in a string of incidents
in the Indonesian provinces of the Moluccas and Central Sulawesi. Every time
there is another attack, the population is reminded of the two bloody
inter-religious conflicts that shook the area between 1999 and 2001.
Central Sulawesi
Violence seems destined to go on forever here. The police have now
decided to set up 15 big checkpoints around the capital Palu. The commander of
the provincial security forces, Inspector General Paul Purwoko, said the
initiative was aimed at preventing "all possible attacks". Palu has thus been
divided into 15 sectors, where the military and police "are on a state of
highest alert to anticipate any situation". No explanation has been given,
however, about what "these specific situations" could be.
Local sources said security operations have been stepped in recent days:
special police troops armed with semi-automatic guns have been placed in
strategic places around the town. "They are there from dawn until desk," said
one resident "The situation is like a state of civil emergency."
Even Poso is under tight security after the arrest of two local residents
who are suspected terrorists: Walid and Khalid. From 2000 to 2001, the
inter-religious conflict in Poso led to around 1000 deaths. In 2001, Muslim and
Christian leaders signed a peace deal. The level of violence dropped but
murders - largely unpunished - have continued.
Moluccas
There was more violence in the provincial capital, Ambon, last weekend. A
soldier was killed on 4 March and a student was seriously injured after police
fired on a crowd of people. Both incidents followed tensions between the police
and the army. The head of the police of the Moluccas said everything started
when a policeman killed a soldier on 2 March, outside the general headquarters
of the police in Tantui, Ambon.
After these incidents, local residents say they are afraid to go out at
night and during the day, they see men from both corps circulating the city in
groups and carrying weapons.
"The military and police should protect people and not create problems,"
said the relative of the injured boy. Another resident added: "These tensions
risk destroying the peace only recently re-established."
The conflict between Christians and Muslims in the Moluccas (1999 - 2001)
led to the death of 5,000 people and the displacement of 500,000.
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