ABC AUSTRALIA, 10/06/2002 17:03:30
Indonesia to send more police, troops to Poso after fresh
violence
Indonesia is to send 560 more soldiers and police to a district of Sulawesi island,
where violence has resurfaced after some six months of peace between Muslims and
Christians.
The official Antara newsagency quotes police as saying they will join 18-hundred
soldiers and policemen already in the Poso district, and will be in position by the end
of the month.
Police say the move is to anticipate any provocative action to cause unrest.
Poso has experienced more than two years of intermittent violence between Muslims
and Christians during which up to one-thousand people were killed and tens of
thousands made homeless.
The peace was shattered after four people were killed in a bus bombing last week and
a group of masked men killed a Muslim farmer on Sunday.
10/06/2002 17:03:30 | ABC Radio Australia News
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