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Article: Christians facing genocide in Moluccas.(Brief Article)
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- Catholic Insight
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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Jakarta--The Muslim fundamentalists' "holy war" continues to claim Christian victims in the Indonesian archipelago of the Moluccas, formerly known as the Spice Islands. (See CI, March and October, 2000.) On December 8, 2000, the Australian newspaper Age reported that 93 Christians were slaughtered by Muslim extremists in the first week of December alone. as a result of confrontations provoked primarily by radical Muslims to expel Christians, and more than 400,000 people have been displaced. Well-armed Muslim Jihad (Holy War) warriors, thought to be trained by the Indonesian Army, have succeeded in "cleansing" about 75 percent of the island of Ambon's original Christian ...