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8 Killed in Ethnic Clashes on Borneo L.A. Times Archives Feb. 19, 2001 12 AM PT From Times Wire Reports ...
The Dayaks and ethnic Malays each make up about 40% of the population in Borneo's Kalimantan provinces. Ethnic Chinese, holders of much of the region's wealth, make up about 12% of the population ...
"The authorities are helping in ethnic cleansing," added Munir, who like many Indonesians uses one name. On Sunday, 118 Madurese were herded onto a soccer field and slaughtered, their bodies ...
Refugees fleeing ethnic slaughter in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province on Borneo island boarded a navy ship here today as two bodies floated by the dock--reminders of the continuing violence ...
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Oct. 27 -- At least six people were killed and several others wounded in two days of ethnic clashes between local Malays and migrants in the Indonesian province of West ...
The Indonesian chief of police has said that the ethnic violence in Borneo in which hundreds of people died is calming. General Bimantoro said that there was no need to declare a civil emergency ...
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Feb. 24 -- The death toll from a week of brutal ethnic fighting rose to 182 Saturday in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province on Borneo as a navy vessel left the violence ...
The Indonesian authorities have sent troop reinforcements to Kalimantan province in central Borneo following renewed ethnic violence. Reports say hundreds of settlers from the island of Madura have ...
The human of the Heart of BorneoMirroring the island’s natural diversity and the tides of change that have swept through over the centuries, Borneo’s people are a mosaic of culturally distinct ...
Sampit, Indonesia - A week of ethnic slaughter on the Indonesian island Borneo which has killed up to 400 people spread to the capital of the Central Kalimantan province on Sunday, with spear and ...
Palangkaraya, Indonesia - The death toll from six days of brutal ethnic clashes on Borneo island rose to at least 143 on Friday as the clashes spread and Dayak tribesmen marauded in armed bands ...