Posted on 09/19/2006 3:10:58 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
THREE death row prisoners convicted of leading a Christian militia in bloody violence against Muslims in Indonesia will be executed on Thursday, police said today, announcing beefed-up security to head off any unrest.
International rights groups, including Amnesty International, have argued that the trials were unfair and called for further investigations, while Pope Benedict XVI has appealed for clemency, but police said it would go ahead.
"The execution process will take place Thursday," national police spokesman Paulus Purwoko said, declining to reveal the precise time or location the firing squad would implement the punishment.
Indonesia usually carries out executions in secret.
Fabianus Tibo, Dominggus da Silva and Marianus Riwu were convicted in 2001 of leading a Christian militia against Muslims in religiously-divided Central Sulawesi.
The men's lawyer said they had been notified of their impending executions.
Islamic groups in the world's most populous Muslim country have urged the government to proceed with the executions, but Indonesia's Christian minority and other activists have protested.
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How many Christians have been slaughtered in this hell hole? If you fight back then its murder.
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In the first level of the attacks it was the Muslims who raided Christian villages, raped their women, slaughtered the men and kids... The Christians had enough of it and started to fight back although they only have crude/homemade weapons with them, and this time they inflicted heavy casualties on Muzzie raiders, it turned the tide against the raiders... don't believe in the MSM reports... Christians win most of the time if Indon military do not interfere on Muzzies favor... Due to heavy casualties, Muzzies created stories just like what this thread is all about and many more... If there is an important place to provide military support for Christians' defense it should be in Indonesia.
Witness the miracle of Islamic "democracy"! They kill the Christians in secret, against popular demand but the better to maintain money flowing from the US.
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