Juridics: Indonesia: Indonesia to execute Christian communal defenders, then postpones for 6 days
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Indonesia, after convicting 3 Islamic bomb-terrorists for the attacks on tourists on the island of Bail, has slowly been grinding its judiciary process regarding 3 Christians for alleged incitement to violence in Central Sulawesi (part of an island group once called the Celebes). A report earlier today by the BBC stated:
The three men, who have been on death row since 2001, will face the firing squad just after midnight local time (1600 GMT).The three are Fabianus Tibo, Dominggus da Silva and Marinus Riwu. They
were convicted of masterminding a series of attacks on the Muslim community in the central district of Poso in 2000.At this distance, a small Christian journalistic endeavour like refWrite is in no position to contradict the courts of Indonesia without a widespread thoro body of public knowledge to the contrary. However, in Central Sulawesi, thousands of Christians are demonstrating against the carrying out of the sentence, Pope Benedict has appealed for mercy, and certain surrounding conditions prompt suspicion of the courts decision and the Prez's judgment.
The men, who say they are innocent, had their final appeal rejected by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono last year.
First, there has been a militant Islamofascist movement in the Sulawesis, where overall the Christian community composes half the population, while Muslims compose the other half.
Pacific > Indonesia:
This basic demographic fact has resulted in the Christians being targetted for jihad by some--essentially, the Islamofascists require the Christian community to convert to Islam, die, or run. This is religio-ethnic cleansing and is a genocidist goal, nothing new to the Islamofascist corruption so widespread in the vast general population of Indonesian Muslims, but yet only a small minority.
However, in Central Sulawesi the demographic is not half-and-half. Rather, it's 20% Christians in the face of an 80% Muslim majority where the Islamofascists have power and influence. So, where the Christian trio are accused of stirring up incitement of their minority to violence, rather than self-defense, the charge sounds prima facie to be quite lacking in any crediblity. Rather, if the three accused are guility of anything, it would seem clear that the Christians in that area faced a Nazi-like policy of extermination on the part of the islamofascists then active and responded in the manner of the Warsaw Ghetto resistance. They knew the Christian resistance to the Islamofascists could not prevail, but were determined to go down fiting rather than let the exterminationists proceed unopposed. Otherwise, inciting a 20% minority to initiate violence against an 80% majority inflamed by Islamfascism would be tantamount to communal suicide. I find that alternative analysis utterly incredible.
Therefore, for now, it is far wiser to believe the 20% minority in this case, and to look for another motive behind the judgment of the Indonesian judiciary and the lack of mercy of the Indonesian Prez.
Where to look? Note the symmetry of the prospect of 3 Islamofascist terrorists being found guilty in the Bali case, and compare that with the dubious judgment of guilt against the 3 Christian-minority members who are to die forthwith for allegedly calling for communal self-defense against another Islamofascist terrorist movement in Sulawesi. Symbolically, to the the Indonesia public, the net result would seem pre-planned to look like evenhandedness. If 3 Muslim terrorists are to be executed, then 3 Christian defenders (whether guilty or not) must be executed. Indonesia should be reproached by this lack of transparency and what is said to be a fawlty judicial process in the case of the Christian scapegoats.
Now comes a report in News.com out of Australia to the effect that the absolute terms of the timing of the execution of the Christians is rather discretionary after all. The absolute date set now is said to have been inconvenient after all, and a six day stay of execution has just been announced. Why? Putting the 3 Christians who presumedly spoke up publicly ("incitement") for communal self-defense, putting them before a firing squad on
April 17 would look bad for the Indonesia judiciary and Prez worldwide.
August 17 is Indonesia's Independence Day, with remissions typically granted to prisoners. Murderers, drug traffickers and terrorists are generally not considered although the President in theory could grant pardons to them.And who knows?–he may do so yet in the case of the clearly-guilty Bali trio, Islamofascists all.
Anotherimportant date is also approaching. Not on the national Indonesian calendar, but on the Muslim calendar worldwide. April 23 is this year's date for the celebration of Miraj, Mohammed's Nite Journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and then from the Rock (hence the later building of the Mosque called the Dome of the Rock) from which he ascended to see Heaven, and in some versions descended also to view Hell.
At present, refWrite thinks that the later Bali case is influencing the earlier Sulawesi case, because of the govt's fear of the Islamfascist reaction to anytihng less than 3 for 3.
--Politicarp
Further Resources [BBC]:
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Sulawesi alert over fresh violence
Indonesian poice find explosives stash
Violence rocks Sulawesi truce
Analysis: Roots of Sulawesi conflict
Sulawesi factions agree to peace plan
Afghan fighters 'seen' in Sulawesi
Gunmen attack second Indonesian church
Gunmen attack Indonesian church
Sulawesi violence cliams 18 lives
Minister urges firm action in Sulawesi
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