HTML pages designed & maintained by Alifuru67 Copyright © 1999/2000 - 1364283024 & 1367286044		Want to Help? CRISIS CENTRE DIOCESE OF AMBOINA Jalan Pattimura 32 - Ambon 97124 - Indonesia Tel 0062 (0)911 342195 Fax 0062 (0)911 355337 E-mail: comamq@ambon.wasantara.net.id Ambon, April 27, 2001 THE SITUATION IN AMBON / MOLUCCAS Report no. 166 1. NO ARRESTS YET FOLLOWING HOISTING OF THE RMS FLAG Up to now, the late evening of April 27, Dr. Alex Manuputty, responsible for the hoising of the RMS flag in the neighbourhood of Kudamati, Ambon, the day before yesterday, has not yet been detained. The police refuses to give any explanation on this peculiar attitude. Asked for his opinion by local newspapers, the Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Universitas Pattimura expressed his amazement, for arrest of Dr.Manuputty would be fully justified. since he had demonstratively disobeyed the Governors order to refrain from this action. Anyway, but for his little band, Manuputty cannot count on support for his action from the side of the christians in the Moluccas. 2. MOSLEM RADIO GOES ON BROADCASTING UNHINDERED The directors of the illegal SPMM Radio (Suara Perjuangan Muslim Maluku = Voice of the Moluccan Moslem Struggle) have paid no heed to the second summons by the police to report and to account for the many misleading, false and provocating news broadcasts it sends out. It is not clear what the next step will be. We quote from a speech by a moslem (jihad?) leader on this radio station we listened to a few moments ago: If there is anyone amongst the moslems who still wants to talk about reconciliation: kill him [three times repeated]. We have been patient enough by now with the treason of our leaders [meant are the governor and his aides]. By not arresting Manuputty, they repudiate the nation and the islam. Do not be afraid if needed to offer your lives. From now on there will be no business of buying and selling any more between moslems and the christian pagans [three times repeated]. No need to do transactions about vegetables and so on. If a moslem is caught doing business with a christian, kill him, for it is better to slay one moslem than that the whole moslem community is wiped out& 3. DEMONSTRATION A crowd of muslims came to the governor s building this morning to demand the arrest of Dr.Alex Manuputty. However, it seems to have got out of hand, so the military dispersed the crowd. One christian was killed. During the afternoon there were again mass gatherings of moslems. The bridge at Pohon Puleh, the bottleneck to Benteng, was closed for all traffic and pedestrians for several hours. The situation in Ambon was tense today. We hope to report in detail about these happenings tomorrow. C.J.Böhm MSc, Secretary of Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina Received via e-mail from : Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina Copyright © 1999-2001  - Ambon Berdarah On-Line * http://www.go.to/ambon HTML pages designed and maintained by Alifuru67 * http://www.oocities.org/maluku67 Send your comments to alifuru67@egroups.com