Walisongo school massacre

Walisongo school massacre
Walisongo school massacre
Part of the Poso riots
Location	1°24′S 120°45′E / 1.400°S 120.750°E; Poso, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Date	28 May 2000, some reports suggest massacre lasted 2 days (UTC+8)
Target	Muslims
Attack type	Mass shooting; mass murder; school shooting; religious violence; mass killing;
Weapons	Small arms; Homemade firearms; machete; bamboo spears; arrows; slingshots;
Deaths	191 or 200 (official source)
Injured	Unknown, hundreds
Perpetrators	Christian militant groups: Fabianus Tibo; Dominggus da Silva; Marinus Riwu; ;
Motive	Islamophobia; Political campaign; Christian nationalism; Christian terrorism; Christian supremacy; Anti-Islam sentiment; Protestant extremism;

The Walisongo school massacre is the name given to a series of terrorists attacks by sectarian 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 200 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 200 or 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.