The Laskar Jihad and Death by Stoning

The date was Tuesday, March 27, 2001; the place, Kampung Ahuru in Ambon. Hundreds watched as Abdul Rohim, 31, was slowly buried waist-deep into the ground to be stoned to death in the first execution by rajam of a man declared guilty of adultery by an Islamic militant group called the Laskar Jihad of Ahlussunnah Wal Jamaah. Abdul, the father of three, was found guilty of violating a 14-year-old girl, a crime punishable by rajam under syariah (

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