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Was reading CNA on-line when came upon this ............. :o

 

 

 

Indonesia jails man who fought off mob attackers

 

 

SERANG, Indonesia: An Indonesian court on Monday jailed a minority sect member for six months for defending himself and others from a lynch mob which killed three of his friends earlier this year.

 

The sentence was the same or stiffer than those handed out last month to 12 Islamic extremists who led the mob in the February rampage, including a teenager who was filmed crushing one victim's head with a stone.

 

Human rights activists expressed outrage that one of those wounded by the mob should be jailed for longer than the leaders of the violence.

 

A panel of judges found Ahmadiyah sect member Deden Sudjana guilty of ill-treatment and ignoring an order to evacuate the sect's property in Cikeusik, western Java, as the armed mob arrived.

 

"The defendant failed to act following the police order to evacuate," one of the judges told Serang district court.

 

"Video footage shows the defendant started punching a man with a black jacket," the judge added.

 

Wearing a traditional batik shirt, the 48-year old defendant heard the sentence in stunned silence. Later he told AFP he was "disappointed" with the ruling.

 

"It's embarrassing. I'm purely a victim who has been criminalised in my own country," he told AFP.

 

Ahmadiyah, unlike mainstream Muslims, do not believe Mohammed was the last prophet and are regarded as heretics and blasphemers by conservatives in countries such as Indonesia and Pakistan.

 

Human Rights Watch deputy Asia director Elaine Pearson said: "The inconsistency between the trials of those who killed the Ahmadiyah and the trial of Deden Sudjana is appalling and smacks of injustice.

 

"Those responsible for the deaths of three Ahmadis got three to six months, and Sudjana also got six months - seems like the Ahmadiyah face blatant discrimination not just from Islamic militant mobs, but also from an Indonesian court."

 

One of the mob, members of Indonesia's majority Sunni sect, almost severed Sudjana's left hand with a machete during the February 6 onslaught, which pitted about 20 Ahmadiyah followers against around 1,500 enraged fanatics.

 

A secretly filmed video of the Cikeusik rampage sparked international concern when it appeared online within days of the attack.

 

The footage shows police fleeing the scene as the mob - armed with machetes and knives and shouting abuse at the "infidels" - launched their attack.

 

A handful of Ahmadiyah men tried to defend the property with stones and slingshots but were quickly overwhelmed.

 

Pearson said the Indonesian government "should clean up its justice system", which President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono admits is at the mercy of a "court mafia" of corrupt police, prosecutors and judges.

 

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seems like indonesia is full of islamist terrorist.last went there in 2007,heard those crazy islamist trying to demolish the borobudur temple saying it's unislamic.

fxxking pigs just like the talibans detonating the buddha giant statues,the statues were already there long before their religion even exist.

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No wonder those extremist getting bolder & bolder.

Sure one day current Indo govt will be overthrown if they continue to let it be.

Fear the worst is the anti-Chinese mob will happen again when the day come.... [:/]

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Indonesians, basically, they are too free in their own country. High unemployment, low education, low skills, lots of jobless people, of productively young age, just loitering, wasting time. That's why they have too much time on their hands, can always protest here, riot there, smashing up property and other people.

 

Now if they all had jobs to go to, work long hours to earn enough salary to pay off their housing loan, car loan, living expenses, etc. - wouldn't that be better? It'd keep everybody engaged, busy and too tired at the end of the working day to participate in any other activities. [laugh]

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