Friday
Jul172009
Chronology of Violence in Indonesia: 73 Killed in 9 Years


December 24, 2000: Bombs as Christmas gifts were delivered to churches and clergymen and the death toll was 19.
December 30, 2000: Twenty-two people killed in a series of bombings.
October 12, 2002: Bombs at crowded nightspots in the resort island of Bali kill 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.
August 5, 2003: A car bomb tears through the Marriott hotel in Jakarta, killing 12 people and wounding 149 others.
September 9, 2004: A suicide car bomb kills 10 outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta.
May 28, 2005: Twin bomb blasts kill 22 in a market in the Central Sulawesi town of Tentena in an attack bearing the hallmarks of JI.
October 1, 2005: Three suicide bombers detonate explosives at tourist spots on Bali, killing 20.
And 17 July, 2009: Two bombs exploded in the Marriott and the Ritz-Carlton hotels, killing 9 and wounding more than 50.
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Reader Comments (1)
Strange headline... When I add up the numbers given, I come to a total of 316. Not that it matters: any victim of violence is one too many.