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CRISIS CENTRE DIOCESE OF AMBOINA
Jalan Pattimura 32 - Ambon 97124 - Indonesia
Tel 0062 (0)911 342195 Fax 0062 (0)911 355337
E-mail: compro@ambon.wasantara.net.id

Ambon, September 28, 2000

THE SITUATION IN AMBON / MOLUCCAS - Report no. 67

  1. The total number of casualties (killed) as a result of the recent attack on Hative Besar is 31.
  2. Heri Kastanya on whom was initially reported that he was killed and afterwards that he was missing, at last was reported to have been able to save himself by swimming to the village of Riang, not far from Hative Besar.
  3. "Siwalima" newspaper interviewed this Hery Kastanya. He swore: "In the name of the Lord, I witnessed with my own eyes that the attack on Hative Besar was launched not by laskar jihad, but by a military army compagnie". He said that afterwards they were joined by white-clad warriors, but that these were just disguised military.
  4. Residents of the recently attacked village of Suli declared to "Siwalima" reporters that there is undeniable indication that among the laskar jihad foreign warriors are to be found, specifically from Afganistan, Saudi Arabia and Moro (Philippines). They have sneaked in because they had learned about the muslims in the Moluccas being suppressed. It is apparent by their faces, by their headdresses "like Yassar Arafat" that some of them wear and other non-Indonesian clothing, by commands being given by means of gesticulations instead of spoken orders and by information from certain trustworthy muslim sources.
  5. It is reported that Suli is being attacked again today.
  6. The situation is most serious. The thousands of still surviving christians are desperately crying either for protection or for evacuation.

CRISIS CENTRE DIOCESE OF AMBOINA,

Msgr Jos Tethool MSC,
Auxiliary Bishop of Amboina

C.J.Böhm MSC,
Secretary


CRISIS CENTRE DIOCESE OF AMBOINA
Jalan Pattimura 32 - Ambon 97124 - Indonesia
Tel 0062 (0)911 342195 Fax 0062 (0)911 355337
E-mail: compro@ambon.wasantara.net.id

Ambon, September 28, 2000 (2nd report)

THE SITUATION IN AMBON / MOLUCCAS - Report no.66

1. At the evening news on local TV, military chief commander I Made Yasa acknowledged to the mass media that the leader of the Laskar Jihad, Jafar Umar Thalib, must be interrogated, because of his influence on recent development of the situation in Ambon, both negative and positive. But - he said - it was not his competence to summon him.

2. Commenting on the recent attack on the village of Hative Besar, he declared that the christians' refusal to admit the military forces to enter the area (for instance by obstructing the roads with masses of people and vehicles) had added to the ensuing loss of lives and property. He beseeched the people to trust the security forces to do their duty, like had been proved for instance in Suli, where the from three sides attacking warriors had been halted by these forces.

3. He also informed that the situation on the island of Saparua was under control. Sweeping on weaponry was underway. Most of the military were being withdrawn from the island.

4. On Masariku network we read the text of a letter:

    From:
    FORUM KOMUNIKASI MASYARAKAT MALUKU di AMBON
     (Communication Forum of the Moluccan Community in Ambon)

To: The President and Vice President of Indonesia, the Military Chief Commander in Jakarta, the Police Chief Commander in Jakarta, the Minister of Interior Affairs and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Ambassadors of Befriended Nations in Jakarta.

Herewith we translate this letter from Indonesian into English:

    S.O.S

  1. Returning to Ambon after our meeting with Presiden Gus Dur in the beginning of September 2000, our prediction "that blood will be shed anew in the Moluccas" proved to be true: the christians being attacked and forced out of their ancestral homesteads.
  2. During this week - again - christian villages on the island of Saparua were attacked by Laskar Jihad and muslim radicals, supported by military and police persons, whereas on the island of Saparua there are only three islam villages and fifteen christian villages.
  3. Today, Tuesday, 26-09-2000, after the announcement from the church pulpits of a week of mourning, prayer and fasting, there were again attacks, looting, burning and barbarous slaughtering of humans on the island of Ambon at the christian villages of Hative Besar, Wayame, Suli and Galala.
  4. We are most disappointed about the way the unrest is dealt with by the responsible for the civil emergency, including the military and police, who are unable to detect timely the moves of those who want to impair any conducive situation. It demonstrates the weakness of the Intelligence Division of the military and police.

Thus we ask:

  1. President Gus Dur to allow the UN Security Council as a neutral body, to enter the area and help to end the unrest in the Moluccas.
  2. If realization of point (1) is impossible, to provide means of transport to carry the christians to any place waves and current will take them.

So far. Thank you.

Coordinator of FKKM

CRISIS CENTRE DIOCESE OF AMBOINA,

C.J.Böhm Msc,
Secretary Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina

 

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