Christian minister shot dead in front of wife in Indonesia Agence
France-Presse
Jakarta, March 31
A Christian minister shot dead in front of his wife in Indonesia's troubled Poso district has become the third Christian gunned down this week in the area, police said on Wednesday.
Reverend Ferdi Uwisan, 25, was shot in the chest on Tuesday evening at his rural house about 50 kilometres west of Poso town, said Central Sulawesi provincial police spokesman Agus Sugianto.
"He was preparing to sleep, " Sugianto said. "Somebody knocked on the door of his house."
Uwisan was immediately shot when he opened the door with his wife, who carried a flashlight, Sugianto said.
It is too early in the investigation for police to make any links between Uwisan's death and two other attacks on Christians this week, he said.
A 41-year-old female lecturer at a university in Poso town was shot in the neck and wounded by two men as she walked towards her car on the campus earlier this week.
Separately, the body of a 37-year-old man was found Sunday in Poso's Kawua area.
Up to 1, 000 people were killed in Muslim-Christian battles that broke out in Poso in 2000. The government brokered a shaky peace deal in December 2001 but sporadic violence continues.
In the worst bloodshed last year, gunmen in October killed 10 people in attacks on mainly Christian villages. A senior security official has blamed the Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah for those killings.
Police said soldiers on Monday found four bombs in a cocoa plantation in the Ratulene area of Poso.
It was the fourth such discovery in the district since January. Police have said the bombs and other weapons might have been dumped by residents following a drive to disarm the district.c'est la derniere fraiche du coin, au mois de fevrier, a
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