Indonesia: June 11, 2002

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 Papuans are complaining that Islamic militants (from Laskar Jihad) and the military are arming and training Christian settlers to resist attempts by the largely Christian Papuans to set up a separate Papuan state. But the local Papuans are split by tribalism (over a hundred tribes) and lower levels of education than Islamic settlers from other parts of Indonesia.

Violence in Aceh left a local politician dead, killed by two men believed to be rebels.

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