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January 1, 2000

Agence France Presse - January 1, 2000

Jakarta – A year of bloody conflict between Muslims and Christians in Indonesia's Maluku islands has left 1,134 killed, and over 2,300 injured, according to security forces.

December 31, 1999

Jakarta Post - December 31, 1999

Jakarta – At least 265 people have been killed in clashes between Christians and Muslims on Halmahera island in North Maluku over the last three days.

Jakarta Post - December 31, 1999

Surabaya – A 65-year-old woman became the latest victim of the two-week-old killing spree in the Malang area, which has so far claimed nine lives.

Jakarta Post - December 31, 1999

Makassar – Some 100 protesting students intercepted visiting President Abdurrahman Wahid's entourage on Thursday to demand the government promptly resolve the violence in Ambon.

December 28, 1999

Agence France Presse - December 28, 1999

Jakarta – Muslim-Christian violence raged for the third day running in the eastern Indonesian city of Ambon on Tuesday, after claiming at least 33 lives the previous day, residents said

Agence France Presse - December 28, 1999

Jakarta – Jakarta-based thugs are offering large rewards to hunt down and kill suspected black magic warlocks leading to eight horrific deaths so far, security officials alleged in a re

Agence France Presse - December 28, 1999

Jakarta – Six men were killed when police opened fire on hundreds of angry fishermen who stormed and burned 10 fish warehouses in the North Sumatra port of Belawan on Tuesday, reports r

December 23, 1999

South China Morning Post - December 23, 1999

Reuters in Jakarta – At least 43 people have been killed in bloody gang battles between Christians and Muslims in Indonesia's troubled Spice Islands, ignoring presidential pleas for pea

December 9, 1999

Financial Times - December 9, 1999

Ted Bardacke and Diarmid O'Sullivan – "We reiterate our full respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Indonesia and support the efforts of President Wahid toward a peace

December 7, 1999

Jakarta Post - December 7, 1999

Ambon – Calm returned to the riot-torn province on Monday following two consecutive days of communal clashes which claimed at least 31 lives.

November 26, 1999

Agence France Presse - November 26, 1999

Jakarta-- Security forces opened fire during fresh battles between Muslims and Christians in the strife-torn Indonesian city of Ambon Friday leaving at least 21 dead and more than 100 w

November 22, 1999

Agence France Presse - November 22, 1999 (abridged)

Jakarta – Tensions were running high in the strife-torn Indonesian islands of Maluku Monday with troops placed on alert after sectarian clashes left six dead and 24 injured, officials a

November 5, 1999

Agence France Presse - November 5, 1999

Jakarta – Eight people have been killed and some 100 homes burned down in the latest outbreak of Muslim-Christian violence in Indonesian's province of North Maluku, reports said Friday.

October 22, 1999

Agence France Presse - October 22, 1999

Jakarta – Five people have been killed and five injured in two days of fresh Muslim-Christian violence in Indonesia's Maluku islands, a report said Friday.

October 8, 1999

Agence France Presse - October 8, 1999 (abridged)

Jakarta – At least ten people have been killed and scores injured in renewed clashes between Muslims and Christians in an island in the riot-torn Indonesian province of Maluku, reports

September 29, 1999

Jakarta Post - September 29, 1999

Ambon – A total of 217 fatalities were recorded in communal clashes across the province between July and September, police said on Tuesday.

September 3, 1999

Agence France Presse - September 3, 1999

Jakarta – At least three people were killed and 14 others wounded Friday when Indonesian security forces opened fire to quell a new outbreak of Moslem-Christian in the strife-torn Ambon

September 1, 1999

Agence France Presse - September 1, 1999

Ambon – Fresh outbreaks of violence between Moslems and Christian Wednesday killed eight people and injured six others in two separate islands in the riot-torn Maluku province, police s

August 24, 1999

Agence France Presse - August 24, 1999

Jakarta – Fresh Moslem-Christian clashes in Indonesia's spice Moluccas islands have left up to 12 people dead, scores injured and several churches torched, sources and reports said Tues

August 22, 1999

Agence France Presse - August 22, 1999 (abridged)

Jakarta – Some 2,000 Indonesian Moslems held a mass prayer here Sunday calling for an end to mounting violence in two of the country's major trouble spots – Ambon and the western provin

August 19, 1999

Agence France Presse - August 19, 1999

Ambon – Authorities have suspended all civilian flights to this riot-torn Indonesian city because of escalating Moslem-Christian violence and handed the airport over to the military, so

August 12, 1999

Reuters - August 12, 1999

Ambon – Indonesian soldiers opened fire on a church in the ravaged island of Ambon killing 24 people, the priest who buried most of the dead told Reuters Thursday.

August 10, 1999

Associated Press - August 10, 1999

Ambon – Muslim and Christian mobs fought street battles in eastern Indonesia, killing at least 18 people and injuring about 120, police and hospital workers said today.

August 7, 1999

Agence France Presse - August 7, 1999

Jakarta – An Indonesian rights watchdog group has said 82 people were killed, four were missing and 141 injured in recent days of Moslem-Christian violence in riot-torn Ambon, a report

August 5, 1999

Jakarta Post - August 5, 1999

Jakarta – The government says an estimated 470,000 refugees are now sheltering in the South Sulawesi capital of Ujungpandang after fleeing unrest in the troubled provinces of Maluku, Ea

July 30, 1999

Straits Times - July 30, 1999

Geraldine Yeo and Yeoh En-lai – Bustling Batam became a ghost-town yesterday as residents stayed indoors and shops stayed shut after at least nine people died in ethnic clashes that sta

July 28, 1999

Reuters - July 28, 1999

Ambon – Clashes between Christians and Muslims in Indonesia's troubled Ambon island killed 24 people, hospital sources said Wednesday.

July 24, 1999

Indonesian Observer - July 24, 1999

Semarang – The long standing economic crisis in Indonesia since July 1997 has affected the lives of children nation wide, evidenced by the fact that around 10 million of them are suffer

July 19, 1999

Reuters - July 19, 1999

Chris McCall, Tual – Nearly 40 people displaced by communal violence in Indonesia's remote Kai islands have died of malnutrition or disease in crude refugee camps that dot the once idyl

June 21, 1999

Agence France Presse - June 21, 1999

Jakarta – Up to eight people may have been killed and dozens others injured in fresh violence in the southeast of the troubled Indonesian province of Maluku, a report said Monday.

May 17, 1999

South China Morning Post - May 17, 1999

Vaudine England, Jakarta – Residents of the Maluku province capital, Ambon, were burying their dead from the latest outbreak of mob anger and military killing yesterday as violent unres

May 10, 1999

Agence France Presse - May 10, 1999

Jakarta – Fresh violence broke out in the eastern Indonesian islands of Maluku as villagers from three villages clashed on the weekend, leaving 14 houses burned, a report said here Mond

May 4, 1999

Republika - May 4, 1999 (BBC summary)

Jakarta – President B.J. Habibie is concerned over clashes involving Muslim sympathizers of political parties.

May 1, 1999

The Guardian (UK) - May 1, 1999

John Aglionby, Jakarta – Mobs of angry Balinese have been rampaging through the usually tranquil beach resort of Kuta this week – an area previously thought to be impervious to the tens

April 30, 1999

Asiaweek - April 30, 1999

Jose Manuel Tesoro and Tom McCawley – "We were hunted like pigs." That's how Madurese farmer Amidi describes being driven from his West Kalimantan home recently.

April 27, 1999

Associated Press - April 27, 1999

Tual – Police fired shots Tuesday to disperse battling mobs of Muslims and Christians in a region of eastern Indonesia that has been plagued by religious violence this year.

April 23, 1999

Associated Press - April 23, 1999

Tual – Police fired shots Friday to disperse battling mobs of Christians and Muslims in eastern Indonesia, witnesses said. At least seven people were killed.

April 19, 1999

Agence France Presse - April 19, 1999

Jakarta – Security forces mistakenedly opened fire on a crowd of ethnic Madurese migrants and local Malays in Indonesian Borneo killing four people and injuring three others, an officia

April 15, 1999

Associated Press - April 15, 1999 (abridged)

Ambon – Sixty-four more bodies of those killed in recent riots in eastern Indonesian islands have been found, bringing the death toll to at least 177 in the clashes that started March 3

Agence France Presse - April 15, 1999

Jakarta – Bitter ethnic clashes between Madurese settlers and local Malays and Dayaks erupted for the fifth consecutive day Thursday in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province, police said

April 13, 1999

Agence France Presse - April 13, 1999

Jakarta – Ethnic clashes between Madurese settlers and ethnic Malays and Dayaks flared up again Tuesday in Indonesian Borneo, which has been rocked by months of savage unrest, a militar

April 10, 1999

Agence France Presse - April 10, 1999

Jakarta – At least three people were killed and 100 houses torched in pockets of Indonesian violence reported Saturday.

April 9, 1999

Reuters - April 9, 1999 (abridged)

Ambon – An angry mob beheaded two people as the death toll mounted in Indonesia's far eastern Moluccas, residents and officials said on Friday.

April 8, 1999

Agence France Presse - April 8, 1999 (abridged)

Jakarta – Thirteen people were killed when Indonesian troops and police opened fire to fend off a mass attack by rioters in troubled West Kalimantan province, a report said Thursday.

April 6, 1999

Agence France Presse - April 6, 1999

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April 5, 1999

Agence France Presse - April 5, 1999

Jakarta – Twenty charred bodies were found Monday in homes set on fire during new Moslem-Christian unrest in the Maluku islands, taking the death toll to 55, a report said.

April 4, 1999

Jakarta Post - April 4, 1999

Jakarta – Religious clashes in the Southeast Maluku town of Tual have claimed at least 11 and injured 50, police and hospital sources said Friday.

March 31, 1999

Deutsche Presse Agentur - March 31, 1999

Jakarta – Tension remained high throughout villages in the eastern Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara on Wednesday after clashes between residents that left at least five people

March 30, 1999

Agence France Presse - March 30, 1999 (abridged)

Jakarta – A senior minister and the national police chief arrived in Indonesian Borneo Tuesday as calm returned after days of grisly ethnic violence that left over 200 dead and displace

March 28, 1999

The Observer (UK) - March 28, 1999

Indonesia's experiment in population control has left a bloody legacy, reports John Aglionby in Pontianak