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Lawamena
Victoria
Reports
by
CRISIS
CENTRE DIOCESE OF AMBOINA
Jalan Pattimura 32 - Ambon 97124 ( Indonesia
Tel 0062 (0)911 342195 Fax 0062 (0)911 355337
e-mail [email protected]
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THE
SITUATION IN AMBON / MOLUCCAS - Report No. 304
(2nd Report today)
2002-06-27
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Ambon,
July 27, 2002
CARNAGE AT MARDIKA / AMBON Specifying our latest report
on the bomb explosion in the city of Ambon. It happened at 11.10
a.m. on July 27 at the alternative market-place in the Christian
neighbourhood of Mardika, not far from the Citra supermarket
and the alternative campus of polytechnics of the Pattimura
University. A total of 52 or 53 persons, among whom five little
children (three babies), were seriously injured and are now being
attended to in three hospitals. Several of them are in critical
condition. Up to now there have been no mortal casualties. Judging
by their names, all of the victims are Protestant Christians. It
has been ascertained that it was a deliberately placed bomb that
caused the explosion. However, up to now the security forces have
not been able to arrest anybody suspected of playing a part in it.
It is assumed that neither of both communities (Muslim /
Christian) are to be blamed, but that it is a mere terrorist act,
probably meant to arouse renewed conflict between the two
communities. There were no specific reactions by the common people
apart from a statement by the students of the polytechnical
department of the Pattimura University demanding the authorities
to clarify this event (13 fellow students are among the victims).
C.J.Bφhm msc,
Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina
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