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Two drunk teens fight in Poso City |
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Incident type: Violence
Date: December 24, 1998
Location: Poso City
Actors: Residents of Lombogia neighborhood (majority Protestant) and Kayamanya neighborhood (majority Muslim).
Event: After two drunk youths quarrel, one Protestant of Lombogia, one Muslim of Kayamanya, fighting and looting break out between the communities.
Notes: This event is still disputed and has many different versions of it.
Source: Lorraine Aragon Report, Human Rights Watch Report |
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Phase One rioting begins |
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Incident Type: Riots
Location: Poso City and surrounding villages.
Actors: Kayamanya youths and Muslim youth from Parigi, Palu and elsewhere; Protestant youth from Poso and Tentena.
Event: Groups attack one another, loot businesses and destroy the homes of prominent figures. Truckloads of out-of-towners are shipped in to join in the violence. Anonymous leaflets urging participants on were widely distributed on both sides. 200 injured.
Source: Lorraine Aragon, Human Rights Watch
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Herman Parimo is arrested |
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Incident Type: Legal Proceedings
Date: January 2, 1999 (Arrest date) August 30, 1999 (Trial date)
Location: Poso (Arrest) Palu (Trial)
Actors: Major General Marasabessy and Herman Parimo.
Event: Herman Parimo, a member of the district assembly, is arrested, charged and convicted for leading Pamona (Protestant) youth from Tentena during the riots of December and January. Parimo died while appealing the ruling.
Source: Lorraine Aragon, Human Rights Watch |
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Agfar Patanga is convicted of inciting violence |
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Incident Type: Legal Proceedings
Date: Unspecified (after June 24, 1999)
Location: Poso
Actors: Afgar Patanga
Event: Patanga, brother of outgoing regent Arief Patanga, is convicted of distributing leaflets inciting Muslims to violence in December '98.
Source: Lorraine Aragon |
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Boundary Change in Poso |
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Incident Type: Boundary Change
Date: 1999
Location: Sulawesi
Actors: Central and local governments
Event: New boundaries are created. Muslim-majority Gorontalo Province is created, separating Central Sulawesi from Northern Sulawesi. Muslim-majority Morowali Regency is separated from Poso Regency.
Source: Lorraine Aragon |
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New Governor for Central Sulawesi |
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Incident Type: Leadership change
Date: 1999
Location: Central Sulawesi Province
Actors: Ponulele, Paliudju
Event: Aminuddin Ponulele replaces H.B. Paliudju as governor of Central Sulawesi.
Source: Lorraine Aragon |
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Poso Election June 1999 |
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Incident Type: Local Elections
Date: June 1999
Location: Poso Regency
Actors: Muin Pusadan, Yahya Patiro and Damsyik Ladjalani
Event: Poso votes for the Golkar party. Muin Pusadan, from Bungku, is installed as the new regent, over Protestant-favorite Patiro and Muslim-favorite, PPP-backed Ladjalani. Muslims threaten violence over perceived snub.
Source: Lorraine Aragon |
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