Violent Video

Apr 27th, 2007, in News & Issues, by Patung

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15 Comments on “Violent Video”

Teng Says:
April 27th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
God, why did I watch that.

What kind of madness is this? It’s sick!

I knew it was bad in Poso, but this bad.

How can people do this to each other?
Abul Says:
April 28th, 2007 at 12:57 am
I’m passed. Watching this kind of video will just make me feel depressed. Really sad (really!), to know that such things still happen in my lifetime, in my part of the world. Watching this. One can’t help feeling helpless about Indonesia, no wonder lots of good people decide to find a (non-barbaric) living somewhere else (me included).
My heart goes to all the victims depicted in above sick video. Over and out.
McFadden Says:
April 28th, 2007 at 1:25 am
I turned the video on and immediately turned it off. I can’t watch it. It’s too graphic!
Abul Says:
April 28th, 2007 at 1:47 am
I wonder if we should make this one a compulsory watch in some radical pesantren, (ngruki perhaps?). Who knows maybe the students would get sick watching these kinda movies and thus giving up their (narrowly-defined) jihadist aspiration.

Btw lots of sick videos around, I’m aware also that there’s one who shows afghan (or is it iraqi?) less-than-10-years-old kid beheading another afghan US informant. A kid, mind you! I’m speechless there as well.
Andrew Says:
April 28th, 2007 at 4:00 am
I doubt these are all from Poso – I’ve seen a portion of that video in a different clip circulating on the internet, labeled as the Dayak-Madurese conflict.

This is no doubt a propaganda video stitched together to incite hatred – like Abul said, this probably a mandatory watch in terrorist camps.

In any case, my heart goes out to all the victims and their families.
Bas Says:
April 28th, 2007 at 10:08 am
This is just a little glimpse in the reality of Indonesia. No need to go to Poso to see that. Slaughtering happen every day in the country, even in the street or university campus.

For my part this kind of footage is just like watching Tom and Jerry. I probably live in Indonesia and watch Indonesian criminality TV shows for too long.

Good to publish that if it can help people realizing the real face of Indonesia. And a happy holiday in Bali.
Mohammed Khafi Says:
April 28th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
We have such a long way to go in teaching our people that violence is not God’s way, it is such a shame to realise that violence is so institutionalised as was illustrated recently at IPDN, if it is at that level, what hope is there for the poor and uneducated who are so easily influenced by people with fancy words and money.

Peace
Niamh Piperman Says:
April 29th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Bas Says:
April 28th, 2007 at 10:08 am

For my part this kind of footage is just like watching Tom and Jerry. I probably live in Indonesia and watch Indonesian criminality TV shows for too long.

Yes. Unfortunately, because of inconsistent censorship in this country, where the local Indonesian TV news is a smorgasbord of gruesome, unedited scenes of dead bodies and the like, one becomes rather desensitised to this sort of footage.

Nevertheless, it certainly highlights the true face of human nature. This sort of thing has been a common part of human history since the beginning. That’s how nations rise and fall.
Robert Says:
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:29 pm
I watched the video and I felt really sick afterwards. I knew of course about the Sulawesi and Maluku violence but I had never seen this. The brutality of the violence is mindblowing. As a foreigner I can’t understand that one Indonesian hates his fellow Indonesian much that he wants to butcher him. I use the word butcher because I felt like watching a slaughterhouse instead of a normal society. Everybody seems to become victim: men, women, children, old aged people.

I have been on this forum for just a while. It seems that the thread running through a lot of issues is violence. Whenever there is a conflict, violence is the tool which is being used. It looks like there is a cult of violence. Dialogue seems to be far away. It is really weird to see that in one country there are peace talks between its own habitants.

Another thing that striked me in the video was the apparent absence of the Army. I did see some trucks with soldiers. But how on earth is it possible the these mobs could do what they did? I don’t live in Indonesia so it’s more difficult to get a proper idea about what happened and what not. Why didn’t the army interfere? What role did they play in this tragedy?
Dan Says:
May 8th, 2007 at 9:24 am
In response to robert, as you can see in the final, and most disgusting part of the video, the authorities are totally complicit in the violence. the man was being slowly hacked to death ran to the uniformed authority for help and was rejected, just before receiving his death blow.
Kura Kura Says:
June 18th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
This violent video makes my appetite loss, how come that the young generations could feel this damn things, according to Dr. Jose rizal which is a Filipino hero, youths are the hope of the nation, well as what I’ve seen, people must read the word of God so that they will not be hopeless, God promised us to have an everlasting life.
Nissa Says:
July 14th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
What should I say? It is one of the saddest events in history….
This is compArable to the holocaust. “We don’t own our lives… we are not in the position of hurting ourselves as well as other people”

This may have passed like any ordinary days but like a wound it would leave a scar that will remain forever.

I felt sorry for the kids who have became victims of this childish behavior…They were not given the chance to enjoy what life has stored for them…
Jenny Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 5:51 am
This video barely shows anything from Poso– most of the footage comes from the Madurese-Dayak fighting, the fighting in Ambon, even some from East Timor. It barely has anything from Poso or Central Sulawesi at all. Obviously a propaganda video. Nevertheless, it is an awful one to watch, but we should all know where the footage is coming from.
Strato Says:
March 24th, 2008 at 3:10 am
Nothing will be achieved until all peoples abandon superstition for reason.This violence is the result of ignorance that is cultured by religion.We must abandon this rubbish and start seeing each other as human, using human reasoning.I see children in the victims here – religion is the perversion of the human state.Time to grow up and give it up.
Alex Says:
March 27th, 2008 at 11:05 am
I agree. Religion is still the opium of the society. And lack of understanding is a serious crime than slaughtering children and women. After watching the video I asked myself… what kind of God do we have? If there is one….