Posted on 10/29/2005 4:24:58 AM PDT by Cornpone
Jakarta (dpa) - Three Christian students were beheaded and three others wounded in the eastern Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi Saturday, following a new violence in the region torn by sectarian conflict.
The bodies of the Christian students, who lived at the same village in Poso district town, were found at different places, with their heads taken as far as 25 kilometres away, the state-run Antara news agency reported.
The three students were killed while they were on their way to school, about nine kilometres from their homes. Another three students had suffered serious stab wounds in the attack, Antara said.
Local police authorities were investigating the murders, the latest incident in a series of violence in Central Sulawesi in recent months.
Meanwhile, Central Sulawesi police pursued a suspect believed to have detonated a bomb in a minibus in the nearby district of Parigi on Thursday. One person had been seriously in jured in the blast.
Investigations had shown that the bomb was a low-explosive home- made device using black powder - a mixture of sodium nitrate, charcoal and sulphur - and ball bearings, police said. Detonators, a fuse and nine-volt battery had also been found inside the van.
In late May, two powerful blasts had ripped an open market in Tentena sub-district of Poso regency, killing at least 22 people and injuring more than 50 others.
Poso and its nearby regions have been wracked by communal clashes between Moslem and Christian communities, leaving more than 1,000 dead in 2000 and 2001.
Indonesia is the world's most populous Moslem nation, but Central Sulawesi has roughly equal numbers of Moslems and Christians.
The Religion of Peace at work.
Ping...forgive me, I'm a little rusty.
But we must be tolerant of Islam! < /sarcasm >
ROPMA bump.
Seriesly, "Islam" is the Religion of Pieces, not the Religion of Peace.
JAKARTA (Agencies): Three Christian teenage girls were beheaded Saturday in the latest attack against non-Muslims in the troubled Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi, police said.
The three high school students were found with their heads severed early Saturday in the sectarian-divided town of Poso, said provincial police spokesman Rais Adam.
The girls were believed to have been murdered while they were walking to school, Adam said.
He said two of the victims' heads were found near a police post while the third was discovered outside a local Christian church in Poso.
"We are still waiting for results from investigation in the field. We are still trying to determine whether this case is religiously-motivated or not," he told AFP.
A policewoman on duty in Poso confirmed to AFP that the triple murder had taken place and that the killings were being investigated.
Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation, but Central Sulawesi has a roughly equal number of Muslims and Christians. The province was the scene of a bloody sectarian war in 2001-2002 that killed around 1,000 people from both communities.
A government-mediated truce succeeded in ending the conflict in early 2002, but there have since been a series of bomb attacks and assassinations of Christians. These included a blast at a market in Poso, a predominantly Christian town, that killed 22people in May.
Christian leaders have repeatedly accused the authorities in Jakarta of not doing enough to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice. (**)
When the subject is beheading, isn't "extremists" like piling on. It's self evident!
Whew! For a minute I thought it was going to be Muslims again! Fortunately it was just "extremists".
No, they were just sharpening their ginsu knives.
WTF is wrong with these blithering idiots at the wire services??!!
You could behead them and they'd still turn around and tell you that Islam (Submission) is a "religion of peace."
Yet another bloody murder by the Islamofacists! ...just a small article in a few papers and then forgotten. When will the world wake up and take action? We should not let this rest in contrast to the Aruba missing teen that has thousands of hours of news attention.
Maybe they were beheaded by secularists.....
Schoolgirls. I pray for the parents. Their pain must be terrible.
According to Worldnetdaily, Al Jazeera is now calling suicide bomings "paradise missions" so our media can't be far behind.
Islam is a lie.
They That Must Not Be Named strike again.
Filthy subhuman death cult scum.
3 Christian schoolgirls beheaded, and they don't know if it was religiously motivated.
It is disgusting and horrible that children are now the targets of these barbarians. Personally I think Islam should be reclassified from a religion to a condition exhibited by the criminally insane as certified by the American Psychiatric Association.
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