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The Walisongo school massacre is the name given to a series of attacks by Christian militants on 28 May 2000 upon several predominantly Muslim villages around Poso town, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia as part of a broader sectarian conflict in the Poso region. Officially the total number killed in the attacks is 165, but there is no definite figure of how many died. The number of dead is believed to be greater than the 39 calculated from bodies later discovered in 3 mass graves, and equal to or below the 191 quoted by Muslim sources. The massacre is named for the Pesantren Walisongo boarding school in Sintuwu Lemba where the most high profile murders occurred.〔 Three leaders of local Christian militia groups were later convicted and executed in 2006 for crimes committed during the massacre.〔 == Prelude == The population of the Poso area in Central Sulawesi is geographically divided along Muslim and Christian lines, with coastal villages and cities majority Muslim and highland towns and villages majority indigenous Protestant. In part due to centuries of shipping trade, the indigenous Muslim population had integrated Bugis migrants from South Sulawesi and a small group of Arab traders, whose decedents held important places in Islamic institutions. The district also includes villages built under the government transmigration program, which brought in residents from densely populated areas, such as the primarily Muslim islands of Java and Lombok, and a small minority from the Hindu island of Bali.〔〔 Residents identifying themselves as Muslim attained a majority in Poso district by the late 1990s, and now top 60 percent, according to current government figures.〔 This significant growth in the Muslim population relative to the Christian population created tension over political representation, particularly when large sections of the Poso economy were controlled by Muslim migrants. The lucrative production and export of cocoa, especially, had been dominated by Bugis and Chinese migrants. Following the devaluation of the rupiah, the cultivation of such cash crops by migrants increased and several trans-migrant groups established plantations in previously forested interior areas considered to be Christian land.〔〔 This marginalization of the indigenous Christian population lead to fear that the traditional, if unwritten, power sharing structure of the Poso district, which separated administration between Christians and Muslims, may be threatened.〔 Human Rights Watch describes that the outbreaks of violence coincided with disputes over candidates for economically significant district political positions, as the elected official was able to grant valuable government contracts. In particular it notes a dispute for the position of district secretary in April, 2000 immediately prior to the massacre〔〔 and newspapers at the time printed statements by a Unity Party member of the provincial assembly predicting greater violence if the candidate Ladjalani was not chosen as secretary.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2000 Walisongo school massacre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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