Posted on 10/29/2005 1:35:45 PM PDT by kromike
Three teenage Christian girls were beheaded and a fourth was seriously wounded in a savage attack on Saturday by unidentified assailants in the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi.
The girls were among a group of students from a private Christian high school who were ambushed while walking through a cocoa plantation in Poso Kota subdistrict on their way to class, police Major Riky Naldo said.
The area is close to the provincial capital of Poso, about 1000 kilometres northeast of Jakarta.
Naldo said the heads of the three dead victims were found several kilometres from their bodies.
In Jakarta, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered the police to begin a hunt for the killers.
"In the holy month of Ramadan, we are again shocked by a sadistic crime in Poso that claimed the lives of three school students," he told reporters at the airport as he prepared to fly to Sumatra island.
"I condemn this barbarous killing, whoever the perpetrators are and whatever their motives."
He ordered the security forces to find the killers and maintain order in the region.
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 religious war in 2001-2002 that killed around 1000 people from both communities.
At the time, beheadings, burnings and other atrocities were common.
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 22 people in May.
Christian leaders have repeatedly accused the authorities in Jakarta of not doing enough to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.
The Christian-Muslim conflict in Sulawesi was an extension of a wider sectarian war in the nearby Maluku archipelago in which up to 9000 perished between 1999 and 2002.
The Maluku conflict intensified soon after it began with the arrival of volunteers belonging to Laskar Jihad, a newly created militia from Indonesia's main island of Java that was supported by hardline elements of the security forces.
Analysts and diplomats accused senior army commanders of funding and training the militia, which was hurriedly disbanded following the terrorist attacks on the tourist island of Bali in 2002 which claimed 202 lives, including 88 Australians.
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TROP
I think we're supposed to tolerate them because the Democrats never met a member of a 'victim class' they didn't love.
bttt
"Religion of Peace" hard at work.
The subhumans have learned how to play the politics of victimhood like no other. Whine, snivel, always blame others.
Earlier thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1511471/posts
the followers of TROP again demonstrate the nature of their beliefs
Must be those extremist Episcopalians again.
Catch 'em and feed 'em to the hogs.
It makes the old Irish battles between Protestants and Catholics look like a lovefest.
So I guess they couldn't care less.
Well, the victims were only females. It's not as though they were valuable livestock, like camels or goats.
And I imagine they were gang raped before they were beheaded (though that hasn't been mentioned). Beheading and rape are closely linked behaviors...both express rage and seek to humiliate.
Just some nice Ramadamnadingdong celebration from the religion
of peace devotees...
We all worship the same god doncha know...
I see it's time to revive my usual tagline, which concludes '...what this was all about.' But doesn't quite fit.
Per Democrats, MSM, Hollywood, etc. global Islamo-terrorism is just a figment of GWB's imagination and a neo-con fabrication. For those who value life and freedom, the Iraq War is the right war at the right time and Bush is the right leader at the right time.
You forget, islam is not a religion, it is a CULT.
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