Walisongo school massacre
| Walisongo school massacre | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Poso riots | |
| Location | Poso, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia |
| Coordinates | 1°24′S 120°45′E / 1.400°S 120.750°E |
| Date | 28 May 2000, some reports suggest massacre lasted 2 days (UTC+8) |
Attack type | Mass shooting, mass murder, school shooting, religious violence |
| Weapons | Small arms, machete |
| Deaths | 367 official, 191 according to most news sources. |
| Injured | Unknown, hundreds |
| Perpetrators | Christian militant groups |
| Motive | Islamophobia, Competition over political influence |
The Walisongo school massacre is the name given to a series of terrorists attacks by Christian militants on 28 May 2000, upon several predominantly Muslim villages around Poso town, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, as part of a broader sectarian conflict in the Poso region. Officially, the total number killed in the attacks is 367 but there is no definite figure of how many died. The number of deaths is believed to be more than the 39 calculated from bodies later discovered in three mass graves, and equal to or below the 191 quoted by Muslim sources.
The massacre is named for the Pesantren Walisongo boarding school in Sintuwu Lemba where the most infamous murders occurred. Three leaders of local Christian militia groups were later convicted and executed in 2006 for crimes committed during the massacre.