Word: tangkura
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...white robes and black face masks storming into one village after another on the island of Sulawesi, firing their automatic weapons, tossing Molotov cocktails and homemade grenades into houses and shouting at the terrified residents to get out, to never come back, and killing anyone who resisted. Batelemba, Tangkura, Sangginora, Dewua?the rolling tide of destruction 18 km long left the once prosperous settlements blackened ruins and thousands of residents hiding in nearby jungle or fleeing to the relative safety of the closest sizable Christian enclave, the lakeside town of Tentena...
...daughter had to cover my grandchild's mouth to stop her from crying." The local military commander sent dozens of troops from the nearby base in Poso but they were heavily outnumbered and hastily withdrew. By 2 p.m. three Christian residents lay dead in the village and all of Tangkura?some 300 houses and a church?was burned to the ground...
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