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...further understand the program's dangers on the ground, listen to Baharudin Isa, the half-Dayak regional secretary for Sampit. Sitting in the relative calm of his office a few hundred yards from the teeming mass of refugees camped around the regional administrative building, a visibly exhausted Baharudin describes what autonomy will mean in Kalimantan...
...immediate spark to the slaughter can be identified: a murder in Kereng Pangi, a small village near Sampit. A group of Madurese allegedly tortured and then killed a young Dayak in December after a gambling dispute. The murderers, Dayak community leaders say, bribed police and escaped to Madura...
...Savage fighting between Borneo's indigenous Dayak population and settlers from the island of Madura left at least 165 dead and sent thousands of Madurese refugees fleeing the province. Local Dayak government officials were blamed for inciting the violence, which soon became a fearsome frenzy, as machete-wielding gangs mutilated helpless immigrants and set fire to their homes. The instability added to the woes of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid. The World Bank last week warned that ethnic unrest threatens to dismember the world's fourth-largest country and precipitate its financial collapse...
There might be Dayak matrons in the forests of Borneo, Noel Coward once wrote, who would reduce you to helpless laughter. There might also be unspeakably hilarious female Pygmies in the jungles of the Congo. But in our civilization, he concluded, Bea Lillie must be the funniest woman alive...
Numbering 750 hard-core fighters, plus several thousand support troops, the guerrillas have repeatedly attacked Indonesian military sites and terrorized Malaysian border areas since July. They have also tried to enlist by intimidation Borneo's primitive Dayak tribesmen, the descendants of legendary headhunters. This tactic provoked a reaction that their Maoist guerrilla handbooks did not even hint at. Meeting terror with terror, the Dayaks exploded in an avenging rampage of killing, burning and cannibalism against all Chinese...