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| Indonesia Cautious Over Muslim Militant Eviction |
| 2002-05-14 |
| Indonesian police were trying to come up with a way to evict a hardline Muslim group from the strife-torn Moluccas Tuesday. National Police Chief General Dai Bachtiar said the technicalities of implementing a central government order evicting the militant Laskar Jihad from the spice islands remained under debate. "Principally, we will have them sent home. It will be formulated technically by the security forces and (local authorities). We will find a way out," he told a news conference. "I mean, like, we don't want them to shoot at us or anything, or to blow our cars up or something Islamic like that. But we'll find a way, unless enough time passes that we don't have to..." Jakarta has said getting rid of Laskar Jihad, as well as disbanding a radical Christian faction, would be key in halting the religious clashes in the Moluccas. The Java-based Laskar Jihad sent thousands of armed men to the Moluccas about two years ago, one year after Muslim-Christian battles erupted on the spice islands. More than 5,000 people have been killed in the religious conflict. That's because they're bloodthirsty killers. But don't worry about it, 'cuz they're Muslims, so it's all justified. Separately, Indonesian Vice President Hamzah Haz, who leads the archipelago nation's largest Muslim political party, said expelling Laskar Jihad troops "should be done after tranquility comes back to the people there and after there's no more lingering problems." Heh heh. That's a good 'un. Expelling the Lashkar Jihad is the means to bringing tranquility back to the people there. They're the lingering problem. But if you're a highly placed political hack whose sympathies lie with the thugs, you'll say something as stupid and cynical as this with a straight face... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |