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Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina - Report no. 133 (31/01/2001) #809
PROVOCATEUR OF THE CONFLICT AT KESUI - According to "Suara Maluku" newspaper, somebody whose name is not mentioned, was brought to the governor when the evacuationship lay anchored off the coast of Kesui. It then became apparent that the conflict on the island of Kesui was triggered in a not much different way from what had been the start of whole North Moluccas conflict last year: namely a provocating letter which was had allegedly been written by (protestant) Church leaders. The governor entrusted the case to the local police commander (Though having been invited, the Provincial Police was not represented in the evacuation team).

Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina - Report no. 132 (30/01/2001) #807
EVACUATION OF KESUI CHRISTIANS - Most of the following information has been summarized from "Suara Maluku" newspaper. Since the Kesui case seems to have become front-page news, we report on it more elaborately than usually.

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Sequence of documentation pictures
(1) - a Christian from Hative Besar was shot while defending his village from jihad attackers (2) The destruction of Silo church (2nd biggest church in Ambon city) at Dec, 26 1999 by jihad attackers, (3) Destoyed shops at AY Patty street, Ambon city. The shops mainly belongs to the Chinese Ambonese Christians. 

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Terror Attacks in the Name of Religion (29/01/2001) #806
Circumcision has been forced on hundreds of Christians, including children and pregnant women, in a campaign by extremists to spread Islam through the war-ravaged Maluku islands.
Victims have told the Herald of multiple cuttings with the same knives and razors that caused many to suffer infections.
In the biggest city in the islands, Ambon, church and other groups have gathered evidence that 3,928 villagers on at least six islands have been forced to convert to Islam under the threat of death, torture or destruction of their homes.

RMS Moslim Nederland
(right) Historical picture of Ambonese Muslims in Nederland who supported the RMS movement which was declared in 1950

Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina - Report no. 131 (28/01/2001) #803
INVESTIGATION ON THE "WIJAYA II" CASE - Following the arrest of three high ranking police officers and one military officer at the Wijaya II hotel in the early hours of Monday January 22 (see Report 128 no. 2), an investigation team has arrived from Jakarta, sent by Supreme Commander of the Indonesain Armed Forces (TNI) Widodo. The team consists of eight persons of the military Intelligence, the Inspection and the military Police (POM).

Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina - Report no. 130 (27/01/2001) #799
HATUALANG ATTACKED - In the early morning of January 24, about 500 muslim warriors attacked the hamlet of Hatualang, part of the village of Alang Asaude, not far from the little town of Piru at the western end of the island of Ceram. The attackers arrived at the shore on two motorboats. They outnumbered the locally stationed military security forces of Battalion Yonif 731/Kabaressy. Infantery sergeant Yusman, while guiding the civilians to safer location was shot by the attackers.

Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina - Report no. 129 (24/01/2001) #790
ARRESTMENT - After the tenseness of January 22, yesterday and also today the atmosphere in Ambon was/is near to normal. However, at 11.15 yesterday morning, two young muslims, Udin (20) and Kasim (19), were caught by police security forces while entering the front yard of the Governor s Office trying to smuggle in two molotov cocktails. They said they had made these bombs themselves and had hoped to sell them to a military serviceman. However it is feared that they may have had the intention to damage either the Governor s Office or the nearby Maranatha church.

Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina - Report no. 128 (24/01/2001) #788
HIGH RANKING OFFICERS ARRESTED - There was much shooting near the shore of Mardika neighbourhood between muslims and the security forces starting at about 9.00 PM on January 21 up to about 8.00 AM the following morning, resulting in, on muslim side, ten people being killed and more than a dozen wounded. The locally stationed Marinirs and Combined Military Forces (Yon-Gab) were more and more being surrounded by the attackers, they were even shot at from building upper floors.

Indonesia: International Action Needed on Ambon Violence (23/01/2001) #783
A traditional alliance mechanism between Muslims and Christians, called "pela," had no relevance to the migrants, and low-level fighting between Christian and Muslim migrant communities was commonplace. While Christians traditionally dominated the local civil service and police, this began to change in the mid-1990s when a Muslim Ambonese was named governor and began to fill vacancies with Muslim appointees, The situation grew perceptibly worse after incidents of church-burnings and attacks on mosques in Jakarta


Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina - Report no. 127 (22/01/2001) #778
MOST TERRIBLE CIVIL WAR - Dr. Thamrin Tomagola, sociologist at the Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, says that the conflict in the Moluccas is the most terrible civil war in the world . If only compared to Bosnia he says, according to Siwalima that five year war claimed 10.000 casualties, whereas the Moluccas in barely two years time, have already 8.000 killed. The number of refugees or LDPs is over 350.000. He further says that of the 6.000 Jihad troops, 4.000 meanwhile have left the Moluccas. He urges that the remaining 2.000 should leave the Moluccas immediately.

Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina - Report no. 126 (22/01/2001) #777
MUSLIMS VS. MUSLIMS - The conflict between Muslims in the afternoon of January 19, in which three people were wounded, did not take place at Tial, like we wrote in Report 125 no. 2, but at Waai. A motorcar travelling from Liang to Tulehu, while passing the totally destroyed and abandoned christian village of Waai, was shot at, wounding three people. Chief Military Commander I Made Yassa declared on local TV that the gunmen could not possibly have been christians, since there are not any christians in the Waai area.

Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina - Report no. 125 (22/01/2001) #776
SHOOTING AND BOMBING - After intensive praying by each party muslims and christians on January 19, remembering the beginning of the conflict exactly two years ago, during the following evening and night much shooting and bombing was heard in the town of Ambon, coming from the neighbourhoods of Batumerah, Karang Panjang / Ahuru and Pohon Pule.

Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina - Report no. 124 (21/01/2001) #773
TENSENESS IN WAHAI - Wahai is a small town on the North coast of the island of Ceram. The residents are mixed christian/muslim and provide shelter for refugees from elsewhere. On January 16, at 3.00 a.m. four molotov cocktails exploded at various sites in the town. At 10.30 a.m. another bomb exploded at a Secondary School site. 

Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina - Report no. 123 (15/01/2001) #768
On January 9, the Governor as the Responsible for the Civil Emergency State installed a Committee for Censoring Newsbulletins. Of course this evoked serious disappointment both at the massmedia themselves and a number of Academici from the Pattimura University (Unpatty) and the Christian University (UKIM). It was called a return to the Orde Baru of former president Suharto.


Indonesian Crime in the Moluccas (15/01/2001) #767
There are local roots for the conflict almost everywhere in the Moluccas, but the dominant cause is a Muslim militia, the Laskar Jihad, from outside the region. It arrived from Java in May 2000. It says it has 3,000 well-armed and trained fighters in the Moluccas. Jaffar Umar Thalib, the group's leader, has vowed to remove all Christians and has had the apparent support of factions in the Indonesian military. He is not in hiding. He regularly takes commercial flights between Java and Ambon, the capital of Maluku Province. He gives occasional interviews to reporters.
The government, the military and the police have not tried to stop him.

Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina - Report no. 122 (12/01/2001) #761
ANOTHER MISINFORMATION - Via laskarjihad@mailandnews.com, Forum Komunikasi Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama ah at Yogyakarta on January 8 informs its readers that: "The christians aspiration to establish an independent nation, separated from the Republic of Indonesia, is more and more evidents On Saturday January 6, RMS posters and flags were placed along the streets and at civilians houses -This was done at all christian sites" - Reading this, we are just baffled. No muslim dares to come into christian neighbourhoods or villages. So who is sending this nonsense to Yogyakarta?

Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina - Report no. 121 (09/01/2001) #753
MISINFORMATION - Via laskarjihad@mailandnews.com, Forum Komunikasi Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah in Yogyakarta on January 6 informs its readers that: .... - Reading this message, we would advise the Laskar Jihad Information Centre in Yogyakarta to check carefully on the facts. There is no village of Air Salobar. Air Salobar is a neighbourhood at the west end of Ambon town. And: all of its residents are christians. Since no local newsmedia mentioned an incident of this kind, we went there ourselves to check out. The people of Air Salobar were astonished to learn about this piece of news.

Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina - Report no. 120 (05/01/2001) #745
One of the victims, Konstantinus Idi, now a refugee in Ambon, retorts in today’s “Siwalima” that Abdullah Wattimena’s statement is totally untrue. Konstantinus reports that since September 2000, muslim delegates were coming to them: Jakaria Esserey from Sumelang, Kasim Rumakur from Rumadurun, Ali Rumakur, chief of the village of Ampera and several others, telling them that they should convert to islam. If not, the jihads would come and destroy their villages. Christians refused, resulting in them being attacked near the end of November.

Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina - Report no. 119 (05/01/2001) #744
On the same occasion the governor expressed his concern on what is happening at the islands of Kesui and Teor. He confirmed that within short for the fourth and maybe last time a team will be sent to both islands for investigation and (if needed) evacuation. He said very probably he himself would also take part in this mission. Meanwhile the bishop of Amboina, Monseigneur P.C. Mandagi MSC, too, has expressed his intention to join this expedition,


Terror Used to Convert Christians in Maluku (02/01/2001) #735
Church investigators have detailed a catalogue of horrors perpetrated on Christians by Islamic militias in the Maluku Islands. Hundreds of circumcisions were carried out with a single razor blade, they said, causing heavy bleeding and infection. Some women were subject to genital mutilation. Victims were sent into the sea for "disinfection".


Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina Report no. 118 (02/01/20001) #734
START OF THE UNREST - For whatever reason, on November 23-26, christians of the island of Kesui, a tiny island between the eastern tip of Ceram and the Kei Islands, unexpectedly were attacked by joined muslim jihad militias, mainly from the neighbouring islands of Geser and Gorong. The about 2000-3000 assailants attacked and burned each day a different village: Utta, Karlomin, Wunin and Tanasoa. At least 9 residents, most of them from Karlomin, were killed.

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