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| Lashkar Jihad kills 14 Christians |
| 2002-04-28 |
| Assailants in black masks hacked, shot and burned to death 14 Christians, including a six-month-old baby, in the religiously divided capital of Indonesia's Maluku province Sunday, threatening a fragile peace pact. If they're shooting, hacking and burning, there's no peace pact. Carrying automatic rifles, grenades and daggers, about a dozen men yelling "kill them all" stormed the mainly Christian village of Soya on Ambon's outskirts, witnesses said. They set 30 homes and a Protestant church on fire, and went from house to house, shooting into those that were occupied, witnesses said. Six Christians, including the baby, were stabbed to death and six others were killed in fires. Two more were believed to be shot to death. You can tell they're Islamic heroes. They kill babies. The killings came two days after Laskar Jihad, rejected the February peace deal, which was meant to end three years of fighting between Muslims and Christians here that has left 9,000 dead. "It may be the end of the peace deal," said Christian pastor Cornelius Bohm in Ambon. "There is no doubt that it was Laskar Jihad" behind Sunday's attack in Ambon. It's pretty typical of them, unless it was a similar group. Comes down to the same thing, doesn't it? What was that quote, again? Oh, yeah: "Who else implanted the tyrants in our land, who else nurtured oppression? Oh Muslim Ummah don’t take the Jews and Christians as allies." Hell, don't even take them as neighbors. Laskar Jihad share Osama bin Laden's anti-Western stance but its commander, Jafar Umar Thalib, has denied any links to international terror. The group could not be reached for comment Sunday. Of course they couldn't. They were busy congratulating each other and getting more ammunition and beating their wives. A senior police officer in Ambon, speaking on condition of anonymity, said 14 people were killed Sunday. He refused to speculate on the religion of the killers. And that is why the problem isn't going to go away. Indonesia appears to be lost, for this generation at least. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |