Indonesia: Shi'a Villagers Told They Must Convert if They Wish to Return Home

The threatened forced relocation of a Shi'a community living in temporary shelter in East Java is yet more evidence of the continuing discrimination against religious minorities in Indonesia, Amnesty International said today.

An estimated 165 Shi'as, including 48 children, have been living in inadequate conditions at a sports complex in Sampang district on Madura Island since August, when they were displaced after their village was attacked by a mob.

Credible local sources have told Amnesty that the authorities have given the villagers until March to convert to Indonesia’s majority religion, Sunni Islam, if they wish to return to their homes.

Amnesty International Deputy Asia-Pacific Director Isabelle Arradon said:

"The Indonesian authorities must guarantee the safe, voluntary and dignified return of the Shi’a community to their homes, according to their wishes, and help them to rebuild the homes that were damaged or destroyed.

"They must also end discrimination against religious minorities in the country and investigate reports that the local and provincial authorities are coercing Shi’a followers to renounce their faith before they are allowed to return to their homes.

"Those involved in the attack on the Shi’a community in August must also be brought to justice in proceedings which meet international standards of fairness, without the imposition of the death penalty."

Conditions in the displaced Shi'a community's temporary shelter have deteriorated as a result of the treatment of the community by the local authorities and police.

In late December, the local authorities halted food supplies and medical services. Then, on 1 January, the East Java provincial police withdrew the officers who had been protecting the community. Children in the community are suffering from ill health.

Isabelle Arradon said:

"The Indonesian authorities must ensure that the community is granted immediate access to essential services such as food and health services. In particular, more needs to be done to ensure that children who are currently unwell get access to adequate medical care.”



Background information

The Karang Gayam villagers, from the Sampang district, were displaced in August when an anti-Shi’a mob of around 500 people attacked the community with sharp weapons and stones. They set fire to 35 houses belonging to the Shi’a community. One person was killed and dozens injured. Only five people have so far been charged in connection with the attack.

In May, during its Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council, the Indonesian government reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring the protection of freedom of religion and promised to address cases of religious intolerance.

However, religious minority groups in Indonesia, including Shi’a, Ahmadiyya and Christian communities, still face harassment, intimidation and attack. Those who commit acts of violence against religious minorities are rarely punished.

In a similar case, in Lombok, East Nusa Tenggara province, an Ahmadiyya community have been living for six years in inadequate housing after their homes were attacked and burnt by a mob in February 2006. The authorities have failed to resolve their situation or bring those responsible to justice.

The right to freedom of religion or belief is guaranteed in Article 18(1) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Indonesia is a state party.

By: Mohammed On 1/18/2013 10:59:00 am

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Shia Muslims: Indonesian villages burned down

26 December 2012 

Exactly four months ago, a mob of Indonesian Sunni Muslims clashed with a group of Shias in their village of Madura, in East Java.

The Shias have been branded a deviant sect by the Islamic authorities in the area and their houses were burned down, with one person killed.

Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation but the majority of the country's Muslims are Sunnis.

Being a Shia is not illegal in Indonesia, but religious minorities have complained that they are increasingly becoming the victims of violent crimes that often go unpunished.

Karishma Vaswani reports from Madura.

BBC- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20843259

By: Mohammed On 12/28/2012 01:42:00 am

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Saudi Wahhabi War Waged on Indonesia's Shi'ites

Indonesia's Shi'ite minority is under heavy attack. Men, women, and children have been assaulted, schools damaged, and villages burned to the ground. Many have been killed. It is becoming increasingly clear that Saudi Arabia's intolerant brand of Wahhabi Islam - propagated far and wide by Saudi oil money - is behind most of assaults.

Naila Zakiyah, a lecturer at a Shi'a school for girls in the city of Bangil, East Java, recently explained to us:

    "In light of recent events, we are naturally worried about the safety of our students... We feel discriminated against. Before this year's Ramadan, the Wahhabi mosque across the street broadcasted their sermon twice a week. They had their loudspeakers directed towards our school. They were shouting that Shi'a teaching is misguided, and that spilling our blood is halal [permissable under Islamic law]. It is said that those who are attacking us are being funded by money from Saudi Arabia. In 2007, for example, 500 people demonstrated in front of our boarding school; the Saudis gave each person $2."

When we visited the neighboring mosque, our hosts showed us anti-Shi'a pamphlets and said that they couldn't talk to their Shi'a neighbors "in a subtle way anymore". They added, "If they don't want to convert, then we have to use violence. In our opinion, they are kafir [unbelievers]. We will not be at peace with them until we die, even if our lives are at stake. They have already insulted Islam! If the police do not take action against the Shi'a, we will resort to violence."

And violence they use. In late December 2011, a mob of over 500 Wahhabis drove 300 Shi'ites from their houses in the village of Nangkernang, Madura Island. Countless dwellings, including a boarding school and a place of worship, were destroyed.

As is common in Indonesia, local authorities sided with the attackers. Only one person was charged for the attack on the village and was sentenced to a symbolic three months in prison. Around the same time, local Shi'ite religious leader Tajul Muluk was charged with blasphemy and sentenced to four years in prison, despite repeated protests from Amnesty International and other international human rights organizations.

After the attack, some villagers cautiously returned, only to face even more devastating terror few months later.

On August 26, 2012, around 30 Shi'ites were traveling from Nangkernang village when they were accosted by a Wahhabi mob armed with swords and machetes. According to Indonesian press, two people were murdered as they attempted to defend women and children. When we investigated, the villagers told us that only one person had been killed but at least five had been wounded. Moreover, they said, members of the mob had taken some Shi'ite children away from their parents. The mob also set fire to several homes, including one belonging to Tajul Muluk.

We visited the village in October, defying an explicit prohibition by the police force stationed in the area. After slipping through the rice fields in the middle of the night, we managed to meet representatives of the local Shi'ite community.

"Now we are afraid to say or to show that we are Shi'ites," said one. "Here, two communities are living side by side. Not all attackers came from the outside; some were from our own village."

After the onslaught, more than 170 people left central Madura for a refugee camp in the city of Sampang. Even this facility - a converted covered tennis stadium - is out of reach for most independent journalists, and it took great effort to negotiate our entry.

Refugees were clearly in despair. They all wanted to return home, but the government insisted that they would be "relocated" instead. Once again the Indonesian government was more interested in appeasing a cabal of sectarian aggressors than in pushing for justice.

Suryadharma Ali, Indonesia's minister of religious affairs, has left little doubt about his sympathies. "Converting Shi'ite Muslims to the Sunni Islam followed by most Indonesians would be the best way to prevent violent outbreaks," he said.

The essence of domination
At the end of November, the desperate, disheartened, and hungry refugees in Sampang sent an envoy to the Indonesian House of Representatives. They demanded that they be allowed to return home. They had their back against the wall, as the local government had announced it would stop supplying them with food and water.

Instead of sympathy and support, the envoy had insults thrown in his face. According to the Jakarta Post, one lawmaker "indulged in ethnic stereotyping, attributing the violence that befell the Shi'a to their heritage as coarse Maduran fishermen", adding that Indonesia's Shi'ites "must learn to adapt to the norm". Another legislator expressed his suspicion that "the Shi'ites had created their own problems themselves".

We contacted our colleagues from the NGO Kontras, which deals with displaced and disappeared Indonesians, and asked them for a comment.

"It is very sad to see that only a few legislators attended the meeting. I am afraid that they are not serious in defending the minorities here," said Kontras coordinator Haris Azhar. "In my opinion, the essence of domination is when the fate of minorities is determined by the majority. They forget that there are rights that can't be contested."

The same day we called the camp in Sampang and spoke to one of our contacts there, Nur Kholis. He sounded depressed. "We feel betrayed," he said. "The government still wants to relocate us - move us somewhere where we don't belong. We just want to go home."

Collusion across the seas
This is the latest chapter of gross discrimination against minorities in Indonesia. Since 1965, Indonesian authorities have committed at least three massacres that could be considered genocides. Between 1 and 3 million people - mainly leftists and members of the country's Chinese minority - died during and after the 1965 military coup. Indonesian forces also killed or starved around 30% of inhabitants of East Timor. And at least 120,000 people have been killed in Papua in a conflict that continues to fester.

Discrimination against Indonesia's many ethnic and religious minorities did not end after Suharto stepped down in 1998. Since then, there have been brutal and often deadly attacks against "liberal" Muslims, Muslims from the Ahmadiyah sect, and of course against Shi'ites. There have been countless other attacks against Christians, members of indigenous traditions, and more recently Hindus as well.

Are these latest attacks homegrown? That is highly doubtful. Indonesian decision-makers since 1965 - military, economical, political, and religious - have long been known to collaborate with foreign powers and interests. The attacks against Shi'ites and other religious minorities in Indonesia mirror those happening in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and other parts of the Muslim world closely allied to the West.

"There are many madrassas in Indonesia that have been funded by money from Saudi Arabia," says Ali Fauzi, a younger brother of one of the terrorists responsible for the bombing in on Bali in 2002. "In exchange they are expected to promote the Saudi brand of Islam - Wahhabism. They are expected to oppose Shi'a belief and even to attack Shi'ites, as the message coming from Saudi Arabia is that Shi'a teaching is heretical."

Andre Vltchek is a novelist, filmmaker, and investigative journalist. He covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries. His book on Western imperialism in South Pacific is called Oceania. His provocative book about post-Suharto Indonesia and the market-fundamentalist model is called Indonesia - The Archipelago of Fear (Pluto).

Rossie Indira is an independent writer, architect, and consultant. Her latest book Surat Dari Bude Ocie is about her travels to Latin American countries. With Andre Vltchek, she cowrote Exile, a book of conversations with Pramoedya Ananta Toer. She was the production manager and translator of the documentary film Terlena - Breaking of a Nation.  

By: Admin On 12/10/2012 07:27:00 pm

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Indonesia Urgent Appeal: East Java’s Shia Community Continues to be Denied Food and Water

East Java’s Shia community continues to be denied food and water and faces continual persecution following the East Java Indonesian Council of Ulema division’s announcement declaring the Shia a deviant and heretic sect. The Jakarta Globe newspaper and other local sources have claimed that two people were killed, dozens injured and hundreds have been forcefully displaced in the targeted attacks on the Shia residing in the Karang Gayam village in the Sampang district.

Followers of various Muslim schools of thought have historically coexisted in peace and harmony in Indonesia. However, in recent years and in particular the last few months there has been a surge of sectarianism, in particular against old and new communities of Muslims following the Jafari school of thought, also known as Shias.

The Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) has never declared the Shia sect deviant and heretical. Furthemore, the Shia school of thought was endorsed by over 500 leading scholars in the ‘Three Points of the Amman Message’ including the Chairman of Muhammadiyah, the President of Al-Shafi’i Islamic University, and the Minister of Religious Affairs from the Republic of Indonesia.

In 2007, the East Java division of MUI issued a religious decree against Shias which has led to their persecution and mass displacement.

In August 2012, following an attack by around 500 people on residents of the Karang Gayam village in the Sampang District, one person was killed, dozens injured, and the community of some 175 members was moved to temporary shelter at the Wijaya Kusuma Sports Center in Sampang.

The local authorities have halted both food and water supplies and no medicine or facilities for women and children have been provided since 22 November 2012. Thereafter, the local Kyais (Islamic experts) gave the Shia community comprised of many women and children, an ultimatum to either ‘convert’ to Sunni Islam or face the consequence of having their homes set ablaze and being denied the right to return to their villages. A 15 year old, Muhaimin Hamama, was killed in Sampang on 25 August 2012 following threats of murder from Kyais backed by local government officials. Under this pressure, the Surabaya office of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) reported that 26 Shias from 9 families were forced to sign an agreement to convert to Sunni Islam on 1 November 2012.

A small group left their refuge in Sampang to meet with members of the House of Representatives’ commission on religion, social and other issues asking for help with their plight. They claim they were rudely dismissed with insults. One woman Umi Kulsum, was detained by the East java High Court for blasphemy and is still imprisoned, called on the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights Navanethem Pillay to address their plight and pressure the Indonesian government to comply with universal human rights standards. On visiting the victims of religious persecution in Indonesia, Navanethem Pillay expressed her distress ‘to hear accounts of violence, attacks, forced disappearances and other discrimination and harassment, as well as the police’s failure to provide protection’.

By: Admin On 12/10/2012 07:27:00 pm

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Indonesian Authorities Cut Off Food and Water to Hundreds of Shia Muslims

At least 190 displaced Shi’a followers in East Java, including 69 women and 61 children, are at risk after local government authorities halted supplies of food and water to the community, citing a lack of funds.

The Shi’a community, from Karang Gayam village in the Sampang district on Madura island, were displaced in August 2012 when an anti-Shi’a mob of around 500 people attacked the community with sharp weapons and stones.

One person was martyred and dozens were injured. The mob also set fire to thirty-five houses belonging to the Shi’a community. Four people have since been charged for the attack.

Following the attack, the community was moved to temporary shelter at a sports complex in Sampang - with minimal facilities - where they have been living for the last three months.

No medicine or facilities specifically for children or women have been provided.

On 18 November, the local authorities cut off water supply to the complex and on 22 November they halted food supplies.

The displaced community have been forced to use their limited funds to purchase food and water.

According to credible sources, some of the Shi’a followers at the complex have been intimidated and harassed by local government officials who have urged them to convert to Sunni Islam if they want to return to their homes.

Local and national authorities continue to put pressure on the community to relocate but they have rejected this option, preferring to return to their homes and livelihoods under conditions of safety.

A group of volunteers have been assisting them with their daily needs and providing counselling, particularly to women and children.

Please write immediately in English, Indonesian or your own language calling on authorities in Indonesia:
To ensure the displaced Shi’a community has immediate access to essential services such as food and clean drinking water in their shelter; 
To guarantee the safe, voluntary and dignified return of the Shi’a community to their homes, according to their wishes, and to provide assistance so as to enable them to rebuild the homes that were damaged or destroyed; 
To investigate reports that the local government authorities in Sampang District have been involved in the intimidation of Shi’a followers to renounce their faith;

To ensure that all those involved in the attack against the Shi’a community are speedily brought to justice in proceedings which meet international standards of fairness and without the imposition of the death penalty and that victims are provided reparations.

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 7 JANUARY 2013 TO: 
Sampang District Head (Bupati) Noer Tjahja Jl. Jamaluddin No.1A, Sampang, Madura, East Java, Indonesia 69241 Fax: + 62 323 321017 Salutation: Dear Noer Tjahja

Minister of Justice and Human Rights Amir Syamsuddin Jl. H.R. Rasuna Said Kav No. 4-5 Kuningan, Jakarta Selatan 12950, Indonesia Fax: +62 21 525 3095 Salutation: Dear Minister

And copies to: Mr. Otto Nur Abdullah Chairperson National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) Jl Latuharhary, No.4 Menteng Jakarta Pusat 10310, Indonesia Fax: +62 21 39 25 227

Also send copies to diplomatic representatives accredited to your country

Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

URGENT ACTION AUTHORITIES CUT OFF FOOD AND WATER TO SHI’AS

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 
There have been increasing levels of harassment, intimidation and attacks against religious minority groups in Indonesia including Shi’a, Ahmadiyya and Christian communities.

These include attacks and burning of homes and places of worship, at times leading to the displacement of these groups. Those who commit acts of violence against religious minorities are rarely punished.

Amnesty International is particularly concerned that government authorities – as well as the police – are failing to protect these communities and, in some cases, actively taking part in their persecution.

These include attempts by government officials to force religious minorities, such as Ahmadiyya and Shi’a followers, to denounce their beliefs.

The Shi’a community on Madura island has been intimidated and attacked before. On 29 December 2011, a mob set fire to a place of worship, a boarding school and to various homes in the vicinity.

Police did not take adequate measures to protect the community and instead of intervening to stop the attack, some recorded it on their phones. Only one person was eventually charged and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for the attack.

In July 2012 Tajul Muluk, a religious leader from the East Java Shi’a community, was arrested and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for blasphemy under Article 156(a) of the Indonesian Criminal Code by the Sampang District Court.

His arrest followed reports that on 1 January 2012, a religious decree (fatwa) was issued by the Sampang branch of the Indonesia Ulema Council (MUI) related to what was described as Tajul Muluk’s “deviant teachings”.

The East Java High Court increased his sentence to four years in September 2012 upon appeal.

Amnesty International considers him to be a prisoner of conscience and calls for his immediate and unconditional release.

The right to freedom of religion is guaranteed in the Indonesian Constitution.

Moreover, Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Indonesia is a state party, states that “this right shall include freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice” and that “no one shall be subject to coercion which would impair his freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice”.

Name: At least 190 people from the Shi’a community Gender m/f: both

Further information on UA: 336/12 Index: ASA 21/043/2012 Issue Date: 26 November 2012

By: Mohammed On 12/04/2012 02:55:00 am

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Shia group wants a dialogue, not sermon: IJABI

A Shia organization says it will accept an invitation to a transparent and neutral dialogue to resolve existing problems with majority Sunni Muslims.

“We have always been open to dialogue. I, for example, recently returned from a dialogue in Makassar,” Jalaluddin Rahmat, the chairman of the consultative council of the Indonesian Ahlul Bait Association (IJABI) told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.

Jalaluddin, however, was critical of the government’s point man on religious issues. “We can’t trust Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali or his ministry because Suryadharma has declared us to be heretics.” 

Nor, Jalaluddin added, could the police be trusted as they have consistently backed Sunni Muslims. 

“If the minister sincerely plans to facilitate a dialogue in Sampang, he must also invite academics, neutral religious figures and the media so that the process will be transparent and impartial,” Jalaluddin said.

He was responding to Suryadharma’s proposal for a dialogue in Sampang, East Java, to resolve the Sunni attacks on minority Shiites.

On Wednesday, Suryadharma said that the ministry planned to hold the dialogue as “many things can happen after a dialogue, as in, for example, the experience where the Ahmadis [in Bogor] converted to the true Islam”.

Jalaluddin, however, had a negative assessment of Suryadharma’s proposal.

“He [Suryadharma] was suggesting a monologue instead of a dialogue, because he already had an agenda to convert people through the dialogue,” Jalaluddin said.

Jalaluddin was also critical of Sur-yadharma’s view of the dialogue with the minority Ahmadhi sect in Bogor.

“We must be free of pressure to concur with any agreement achieved through a dialogue. I think that the Ahmadis that Suryadharma referred to were under threat and forced to leave their faith,” he added.

He asked the local administration in Sampang to lift its ban on the IJABI and allow its members to enter the area to help the Shiites who have been living in a local stadium after their homes were destroyed by rampaging Sunni Muslims.

Echoing Jalaluddin statements, academic Zainal Abidin Bagir said that a dialogue required a two-way interaction and not the one-way interaction suggested by Suryadharma.

“The minister is right that dialogue is the best solution to what has been going in Sampang. It is the best solution to all conflicts,” Zainal, the chairman of the Center for Religious and Cross-Cultural Studies (CRCS) at Yogyakarta-based Gadjah Mada University, said.

However, Zainal said, it was unclear if Suryadharma was suggesting a dialogue or a sermon, as he already recommended that the Shiites convert to Sunni Islam.

“Attempting to convert people is the outcome of a sermon, not a dialogue. Converting people is not the job of the minister. A dialogue will work if the participants, as well as facilitators, can get some distance from their faiths and are willing to accept each others’ differences,” Zainal said.

Meanwhile, Joan Elga Sarapung of the Yogyakarta-based interfaith organization DIAN/Interfidei, said that Suryadharma and other government officials had to be impartial in reconciling religious conflicts across the nation.

“Government officials, including Suryadharma, have failed to uphold justice when dealing with religious conflicts because they are biased,” Joan Elga said.

“They must know that they must serve all faith groups equally despite of their personal beliefs when running the country,” she added.

By: Admin On 9/08/2012 12:51:00 pm

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Police Release Seven Sunnis After Anti-Shia Riot

Members of Ahlulbait Indonesia, a Shia group, gathered for prayers in Central Jakarta on Tuesday evening.  

Seven people detained in the wake of a deadly mob attack on Shiite Muslims in Sampang, East Java, were released on Wednesday due to a lack of evidence or witnesses, East Java Police said. 

Eight people were arrested in connection with Sunday’s violent attack by Sunni Muslims on members of the local Shiite minority. Some 500 residents of Sampang attacked local Shiites with machetes and swords on Sunday, setting homes alight during a rampage that left two dead and seven injured. 

“Seven of them have returned home because of a lack of witnesses and evidence,” East Java Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Hilman Thayib said on Wednesday. 

Only Roisul Hukama, a key member of the local chapter of the Nadhlatul Ulama Islamic organization, was charged in connection with the violent attack. Roisul allegedly urged local Sunnis to attack Shiite men over a mosque loudspeaker before Sunday’s incident, the latest in a long series of violent confrontations between Sampang’s Sunnis — led by Roisul — and the region’s Shiites — who are led by Roisul’s brother Tajul Muluk. 

Roisul was charged with committing premeditated murder, participating in a mob attack, suggesting others commit a violent crime, assisting them as they commit a crime and assault that resulted in someone’s death. He faces a maximum of 15 years in prison if convicted. 

The brothers, both heads of rival Islamic boarding schools, began feuding in 2004 after Roisul lost a woman he planned to marry to a man from Tajul’s school, according to Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi. The minister called the attack a family dispute, not another incident of anti-Shiite violence. 

“The Sampang incident is a purely criminal case that developed out of a family conflict and later gained momentum within the local community,” Gawaman told Antara news agency on Monday night. “It is not an anti-Shiite situation.” 

Sampang’s Sunnis and Shiites have a long, and often violent, history. 

Roisul reported his brother to the police for blasphemy in April after Tajul reportedly told students that the Koran was not the direct word of God, that Muslims don’t have to pray five times a day and that the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca was not obligatory. Tajul was sentenced to two years in jail after being found guilty of blasphemy and causing public anxiety. 

On Dec. 29, Shiites in Sampang’s Nangkernang village were attacked by hard-line Muslim groups, who set fire to hundreds of homes and a Shia Islamic school. Five hundred Shiites were displaced from their village after the attack. 

The 30 Shiites targeted in the latest attack were traveling from Nangkernang village on the island of Madura to nearby Bangil. They were visiting Sampang to celebrate Idul Fitri with their families when they were surrounded by a mob of 500 armed men, many who were reportedly followers of Roisul. 

The mob attacked the traveling Shiites, killing two men — Hamama and Tohir — as they reportedly attempted to protect the group’s women and children, according to a witness. 

“When the incident happened, there weren’t any police officers. The mob had swords and machetes, and they attacked all of the adult males who were trying to protect the women and children,” Umi Kulsum said. 

Umi, Tajul’s wife, said she earlier reported the planned attack to local police, who failed to take action. 

Mutawakkil Alallah, the chairman of Nadhlatul Ulama’s East Java chapter, defended the attackers. 

“Shiites are against human rights and they despise Islam,” Mutawakkil said. “Banning them is not the solution, but we want Shiites to avoid worshiping publicly. If they do not enter the public sphere and keep [their religious activity] within their own home, they will be safer.” 

Shiites represent a small portion of Indonesia’s 220 million Muslims. One million Shiites call Indonesia home, according to estimates. The rest practice a form of Sunni Islam. 

Intimidation and attacks on Shiites have also been recorded in Pasuruan and Bangil, both in East Java. Other religious minorities — including Christians and members of the Ahmadiyah sect — have also been targets of recent attacks and acts of intimidation. 

Shiite cleric Iklil Almilal said that after this week’s attack, several Shiites in Sampang chose to hide in the nearby forest. “They are afraid of further attacks from anti-Shiite groups,” Iklil said, according to Antara. 

Antara also reported that volunteers from the Ahlulbait Indonesia — the umbrella group for Shiites — and members of the East Java Police were searching for scared Shiites on Wednesday and evacuated nine people to safety, including three children. A total of 276 people have been evacuated from Nangkernang village and all have sought shelter at the Sampang sports center in the wake of the attack. 

Ahlulbait volunteer coordinator Muadz said the refugees are in dire condition with little food or drinking water.

By: Admin On 8/31/2012 12:33:00 am

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