Christian Indonesian SchoolGirls Beheaded
Sad... very sad.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police increased patrols on Sunday in the Poso area, plagued by sectarian violence for years, after assailants in black beheaded three teenage Christian girls.
At the Vatican, Pope Benedict offered his deepest sympathies to the families of the 16 to 19-year-old students, who police said were attacked by six machete-wielding men as they walked to school on Saturday on Indonesia's eastern island of Sulawesi.
Police official Made Rai said about 1,000 police, including reinforcements from other parts of the country, were securing the remote regency of Poso, with more than 300 additional officers expected to arrive during the day.
"So far no witness has been questioned and no suspect arrested," Rai told Reuters by telephone from Poso, about 1,500 km northeast of the capital Jakarta. One student survived and had described the attack.
The Vatican called the killings "barbaric" and said in a statement that the Pope would pray for "the return of peace among the people" of the region.
Muslim-Christian clashes in the Poso area killed 2,000 people from 1998 through 2001, when a peace deal was agreed.
While the worst violence abated after the deal, there have been sporadic outbreaks since. Bombings in May in the Christian town of Tentena killed 22 people.
The three headless bodies of the girls, dressed in brown uniforms, were left at the site of the attack. Their heads were found at separate locations two hours later by residents. source
The people who did it have not been arrested... no one has been questioned or anything. No group has claimed the attacks on these girls or anything. Poeple just know they were dressed in black, had mechedes. Really, people dont' even know if they were Islamic extremist... but I bet it is anyway. Michelle Malkin has some info.
salaam
