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| Southeast Asia |
| Indonesia arrests 13 over religious violence |
| 2011-02-12 |
| [Straits Times] INDONESIAN police said on Friday they had nabbed 13 men over two incidents of religious mob violence which left three people dead and churches in flames. Five people have been jugged over the brutal lynching of three members of a minority Islamic sect in West Java on Sunday, after graphic footage of the incident was released on the Internet, police said. 'A total of five people involved in the attack against Ahmadiyah followers have been nabbed. More will be nabbed as they have been identified through the YouTube video,' Banten province police front man Gunawan Setiadi told AFP. 'At least five people are still on the lam and our team is still searching for them,' he said. More than 1,000 bully boy Mohammedans assaulted a house belonging to a leader of the Ahmadiyah sect, screaming 'Allahu Akbar' (God is greatest) as they beat and stoned three sect members to death. Police knew of the attack but failed to intervene to protect the Ahmadiyah, who have been subjected to regular abuse and persecution since their sect was slapped with restrictions at the urging of mainstream Mohammedans in 2008. |
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