Indonesian Police Probe Attack on a Minority Muslim Sect

Indonesian police are investigating an attack against members of minority Muslim sect, which killed three people and injuring five others.

Home preacher Ahmadiyah sect was raided on Sunday, more than 1,000 people – some armed with knives, sticks and stones, according to police.

Authorities said before the attack, the security personnel to try to persuade a preacher, and about 20 other visitors to go home in the province of Banten on Java.

Residents opposed to the presence of territory demand Ahmadiyah group ceases to operate, officials said.

According to police, the crowd rose unexpectedly worsened the situation. The victims were all members of the Ahmadiyah, according to the local police chief, Lt. Col. Alex Fauzy Rasyid.

Amateur video taken at the scene with a small mobile unit was donated to the organization Human Rights Watch.

The video has been pummeling the brutal attacks of the assailants seemed lifeless bodies of the victims with sticks.

Human Rights Watch has refused to reveal the source of the video, but similar views have been much more traffic on the Internet, according to the office in Indonesia.

We mourn the attack on Ahmadiyah. Violence is not only against property, but on human life, “sect spokesman Firdaus Mubarik told CNN.

Many Muslims consider Ahmadiyah followers and heretical beliefs. Sect believes that Mohammed is not the last prophet.

Indonesia published in 2008 a joint decree of the ministers, the ban on the sect – which has about 200,000 members in Indonesia – to spread their beliefs.

Since then, many extremists often taken the law into their own hands, and sometimes attacking followers of the sect and their properties across the country.

Last month, members of the militant group, Islamic Defenders Front forced the followers of the sect of his mosque in the city of Makassar, according to Human Rights Watch.

The activists have struck against this new attack.

“For years, the Indonesian authorities have sat idly by while mobs rampaged against Ahmadis,” said Elaine Pearson, deputy director for Asia at Human Rights Watch.

“Today Brutal murder occurred due to failure of police to combat hate crimes.”

Pearson asked the Indonesian police to the culprits responsible.

Human Rights Watch said that if the government is serious about stopping violence against the sect, should raise a decree of 2008 that banned the practice of their religion, sect. “

In a statement, also Indonesian Institute of Policy Research and the defense accused the police of failing to protect members of the sect.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has condemned the attacks.

Security Minister Dyoko Suyanto call for research, but also asked to respect the sect in 2008 by ministerial decree.

The police chief said an investigation is underway and the authorities identify the culprits.

“We hope the government will take decisive action to stop the violence,” said a spokesman for the sect.