2005 Tentena market bombings

Terrorist attacks in Indonesia 2005 Tentena market bombings Tentena, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia Open air market in central Tentena township 28 May 2005 8:15 a.m. and 8:30 a.mTwo Bomb Blasts in Indonesian Market Kill at Least 20 (Update2) https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=axSCnyxCsXsk&refer=asia 29 March 2011 Bloomberg online 28 May 2005 UTC+8 Improvised explosive devices 22 90 Local Islamic militants with purported links to Jemaah Islamiyah A market in the center of Tentena, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia was bombed on 28 May 2005. Two improvised explosive devices, set to explode 15 minutes apart, detonated during the morning, killing 22 and wounding at least 40 more. The fatalities included a Christian clergyman and a 3-year-old boy.Bomb blasts kill at least 22 in Indonesia https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna8010669 29 March 2011 Associated Press via NBC News 28 May 2005 Several Islamic militants were later charged and sentenced to jail terms in 2007 and 2010 for their roles in organizing the bombing, among other sectarian attacks in the Poso region.Militants jailed for Christian attacks http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/1482096 29 March 2011 Reuters via tvnz.com 3 December 2007 The bomb blasts are linked to sectarian conflict between Muslims and Christians in Poso that killed at least 577 people and displaced another 86,000IV. PART TWO: CHRONOLOGY OF THE CONFLICT https://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/2002/indonesia/indonesia1102-04.htm Central Sulawesi Conflict Report Human Rights Watch 29 March 2011 during three-year period before a government-sponsored truce agreed in December 2001. Those convicted for crimes related to the attack spoke of seeking revenge for previous atrocities committed against the Muslim community within PosoIndon extremist may face death over terror attacks http://services.inquirer.net/print/print.php?article_id=20100729-283772 29 March 2011 Agence France-Presse via The Inquirer 29 July 2010 10 September 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170910220935/http://services.inquirer.net/print/print.php?article_id=20100729-283772 dead and the bombings were carried out on the fifth anniversary of a massacre of at least 191 Muslims in Sintuwu Lemba village, Central Sulawesi.David Walisongo Massacre http://www.indonesiamatters.com/1300/wali-songo/ Indonesia Matters Indonesia Matters 29 March 2011 The explosions The first device detonated at around 8:15 a.m. and witnesses observed many of the victims who had come to help those injured in the first blast were killed by the second, larger explosion that left a 3-foot-deep crater. The blasts flattened food stands and also damaged a bank, a Christian church and a police station in central Tentena town. The Poso district police chief announced another, unexploded bomb was later discovered outside a nearby church. The Jakarta Post initially reported 27 people were killed in the attack, citing volunteers at the Tentena General Hospital, however casualty figures were revised down to 22. A dentist volunteering at the same clinic stated that a total of 57 residents had been treated for injury at the poorly equipped facility, describing that "many suffered wounds in their internal organs," and estimated around 20 locals had been seriously wounded.28 May 2005 Death toll in Indonesian twin bomb blasts rises to 22 ABC Australia https://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-05-28/death-toll-in-indonesian-twin-bomb-blasts-rises-to/1580650 dead 29 March 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20060119001303/http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1379325.htm 19 January 2006 A trial for a cleric convicted of financing the attack later heard four militants had split into two groups to plant the devices in the meat and produce section in the market of the predominantly Christian town. Ardin Djanatu and Amril Ngiode carried and planted one while accomplice Syaiful Anam planted another bomb nearby, in front of the market structure, and the timers for the two devices were set to detonate 15 minutes apart.8 November 2007 Indonesian prosecutors seek 20-year jail term for Poso bomber Channel News Asia. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/310252/1/.html dead 29 March 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20121022134531/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/310252/1/.html 22 October 2012 Ngiode described that the bombs had been assembled out of TNT and sulphur, with large pieces of iron added to create shrapnel. One weapon had been concealed in a cardboard box and transported to the market in a black plastic bag disguised with vegetables.Haryanto Ulma Cleric’s Trial Told of Poso’s Bloody Reign of Terror http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/jakarta/clerics-trial-told-of-posos-bloody-reign-of-terror/392519 29 March 2011 Jakarta Globe 24 August 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20120922145954/http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/jakarta/clerics-trial-told-of-posos-bloody-reign-of-terror/392519 22 September 2012 dead dmy-all Explained to the court also by Ngiode was that the initial target was actually a Catholic school adjacent to the Tentena market, but that during their survey the convicted terrorists found the market was more crowded. Investigation Prior to the bombing, in January 2005, authorities had discovered 60 homemade bombs in an abandoned house in Poso and, earlier in May, the Indonesian police had arrested three Muslim extremists in Central Sulawesi for alleged involvement in another attack using similar devices. As of June 2005, 13 suspects had been arrested as part of the investigation into the attacks, including an escaped convict arrested near Tentena shortly after the bombings and the head warden of the main jail in the Muslim town of Poso.Jail warden a suspect in Sulawesi bombings http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200506/s1384313.htm 29 March 2011 ABC Australia 3 June 2005August 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes Ten other suspects in the Tentena and other attacks were arrested in early 2007 also. In 2007 Anam and Djanatu were convicted with planting the devices in Tentena and sentenced to 18 years and 14 years jail respectively while Ngiode received a 15-year sentence for assembling the bombs and other charges of possessing illegal weapons and assault. The militants sentenced were among 6 Muslim militants jailed for crimes against Christian residents around Poso since the 2001 Malino Peace Treaty including the beheading of three school girls. The alleged bomb designer, identified as Taufik Buraga by Ngiode, still remains at large. In a 2010 trial in Jakarta, hard-line Islamic cleric Eko Budi Wardoyo was convicted and sentenced to 10 years jail for providing funding to the perpetrators to assemble the two bombs and was identified as the primary adviser behind the attack.Bhakti Adhe Indonesian Cleric Gets 10 Years for Funding Terror http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/indonesian-cleric-gets-10-years-for-funding-terror/404975 29 March 2011 Jakarta Globe 4 November 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20120922150024/http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/indonesian-cleric-gets-10-years-for-funding-terror/404975 2012-09-22 dead At the cleric's trial, as witness, Ngiode gave testimony that Wardoyo “used to say that jihad meant paying back the Christians for what they had done to the Muslim communities in Poso,” and that he had been taught to pursue jihad almost exclusively by the cleric, describing the attack as having been motivated by revenge. 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