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Mengenai Peristiwa Ambon
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THE CAUSES OF AMBON TRAGEDY http://www.al-madeena.com/indo.html 1.Problem Background Maluku is an archipelago rich with spices (nutmegs and cloves). The area is populated with heterogenous community from various ethnic groups, religions and races. Religious tolerance is good enough, even though intimidation and discrimination by a group of people to another group of people is fairly common. The Muslim people are free to do their religious duties, such as shalat, shaum (fasting) and others. However, on the other hand, the Muslims did not perform their duties completely. Such is shown by the fact that they attended the Christmas celebration, as well as dancing and drinking parties. On the other side, the economic and social life of the Muslims shown some progress in trading performance. Whereas the native Ambonese always thought that the economic life would only improve if they worked in an office. This was when the Muslims started to dominate trading in Ambon, along with the Chinese. This has caused a social gap. At the same time, political life in this country was very complex, because everyone tried to hold certain positions. This was how the provocators used the issue of social gap to destroy the immigrant Muslims in this area. 2. The Cause of the First Ambon Tragedy The riots were started from an illegal ticket sale by a BatuMerah youth (named Usman) to a public transport driver (named Yopi) which turned to be a fight. The systematically planned scenario became a reality. The attacks from the Christians to several Muslims area in Ambon have destroyed the Muslims residential area. The tragedy, known as the Bloody ‘Ied Tragedy and which has taken many victims, happened on the 19 January 1999. The first tragedy was settled down by involving several approaches from social leaders, religious scholars, government and militaire. Religious scholars, community leaders, government and militaire were gathered to form an agreement by signing a peace agreement. Several (up to 4) peace agreements were resulted and reached its climax when the Minister of Defence and Security and the Team 19 which consisted of the native Malukunese were present. The security stability did not happen for long. Since the Team 19 and the Marine Troop were withdrawn from Ambon, the Ambon community began their activity with suspiciousness. A little spark of fight would turn to a battle. 3. The Cause of The Second Ambon Tragedy The second battle started from the torture of the Muslim students in Poka. The problem was not solved because the victims did not dare to report the incident. Riots started on the 24 July 1999, when at dawn stoning to Muslim houses in Block I to V Perumnas Poka started. The Muslim youths reacted and stoning between houses started. The second riots began in Perumnas Poka when the Christians attacked and burnt the lecturer houses around the Pattimura University. It took a lot more victims than the first riot, both material and immaterial ones. The raped cases in Wailiha village When this village was being attacked by the christ people, they divided the young and beatiful muslimas to be a special group. They raped the yound and beautiful muslilmas before killed them.After they (the christ ppl) forced the muslima to be uncloth, then they raped them, after that they cut the muslimas breast or their head or to hurt the muslimas vaginas with a hard thing and killed them very cruelly.A mother of three children was raped by 20 christ together. The men were cut and cut untill died, even some children were cut too. This case was never exposed by pers medias here. Muslim Women were raped in Ambon The Jakarta Post, 05 August 1999 JAKARTA (JP): The government says an estimated 470,000 refugees are nowsheltering in the South Sulawesi capital of Ujungpandang after fleeing unrest in the troubled provinces of Maluku, East Timor, Aceh and Irian Jaya.The secretary-general of the Ministry of Social Services, Moerwanto, was quoted by Antara as saying in Ujungpandang that the government has distributed 400 grams of rice and side dishes, worth Rp 1,500 (21 US cents) each, for every refugee daily for 70 days. The relief is given "in the hope it would lessen their burden, though of course it's far from enough", he said after delivering the aid in a ceremony on Wednesday.The government estimate is the highest so far. In May, the number of people fleeing sectarian clashes in Maluku and seeking shelter in South Sulawesi and Southeast Sulawesi cities, as well as in Southeast Maluku regency, was put at 100,000. An estimated 100,000 Acehnese are now seeking shelter in various towns after fleeing armed conflicts between the military and separatist guerrillas. From East Timor, thousands have also left their villages as tensions rose in the run-up to the self-determination ballot planned for Aug. 30. Meanwhile, AFP reported that Ambon was calm on Wednesday after a renewed bout of Muslim-Christian violence that forced many Chinese Indonesians to flee.In the latest outbreak of violence, a man was stabbed to death on Tuesday at the Mardika market in downtown Ambon, sparking an angry reaction in the predominantly Muslim neighborhood of Galunggung. Security forces moved in and fired warning shots to prevent a fresh riot."The situation is almost normal but still vulnerable," Maluku Military Command spokesman Lt. Col. Iwa Budiman said.He said police and soldiers remained on alert and were still deployed in places "susceptible" to violence."Large groups of people are only centered at Al Fatah and Maranatha," he said referring to a mosque and church where Muslims and Christians have sought refuge from violence. He said "a number" of ethnic Chinese were fleeing the city on ships andairplanes. The Media Indonesia daily on Wednesday said at least 1,500 ethnic Chinese were fleeing the unrest. But, reacting to the media report, Budiman said: "It's not that many and they did not leave in one go." The ethnic hinese community in Ambon, which had escaped involvement in the Muslim-Christian violence that has simmered since January, were targeted for the first time when fresh violence flared last week. Many of their shops in the predominantly Christian shopping area in the A.Y. Pati neighborhood in downtown Ambon were burned during the violence. Meanwhile, a report by the investigation team set up by the Maluku provincial chapter of the Justice Party described an attack on July 25 on te hamlets of Kisar, Kampung Pisang and Wailiha in the Batu Gong village,north Of Ambon, by residents of neighboring Hutumuri village. The report alleged that the attackers used firearms, machetes, spears and homemade bombs. They also burned houses and two mosques, and forced the Muslim residents to flee, the report said. The report said four people were killed in the attack, 14 were severely injured, three others went missing, and three women were sexually harassed.The report also said one woman who was trying to seek refuge in a factory building was gang-raped and wounded severely. She is reportedly now being treated at the Navy hospital of Halong."The report was compiled from testimonies of the victims and witnesses to the investigation team of the Justice Party," said Suhfi of the provincial chapter of the party, which also set up a humanitarian team to help victims of the violence, which first erupted on Jan. 19. (swe) THE MARDIKA INCIDENT The fight in Mardika between the Jihad Troop Hatuhaha and the White Group Mass and the Red Group Mass in Mardika took place on Saturday (date??) at 17.00 East Indonesian Time. When the two groups met, bomb explosions were heard 4 times. The first explosion was heard at around 17.30 East Indonesian Time. Then the two groups started to attack. The security force around the area did not stay quiet. They fired warning shots. However, the two groups were not scared off. The attack burnt 7 shops belong to the Chinese in Mardika. The shops were burnt by the Hatuhaha Troop. The dead victims in the incident were Muhamad Marasabessy (42 yrs), L. Bili (20 yrs) who that afternoon still smiled at me, held up his fist and whispered the takbir (Allahuakbar) and La Amu (39 yrs). The victims were dead from the shots by the security force. Based on the story of Hawa, who witnessed the death of the three Muslims, the victims were shot by the security personnel from Yonif 733 named Serda Barito. Hawa pointed out that she knew the security personnel well. The fight atmosphere made the situation very bad.
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