But now reports are emerging, including one of a recent Indonesian army-led attack on Christians sheltering in a church in Ambon, the capital of Maluku province. Twenty-four people were killed in that attack. Hundreds of others have died in the conflict between Muslims and Christians, and as recently as last month mosques issued a call for a jihad or holy war. A member of the Ambonese Catholic clergy who's now fled Ambon for Australia says there are obvious divisions within the Indonesian Army between marines seeking to restore order and strategic command troops seemingly determined to thwart moves for peace. Riots between Christians and Muslims in Ambon.
Gunshots are fired, young men wield swords and home-made mortars.
Indonesian strategic command troops known as the Kostrad stand by and watch. For the Ambon people, especially the Christians, it is like living in uncertainty. They are afraid of what's going to happen today, and they are not suer about what's going to happen the day after today and so on. It was - it was last week on Monday and Tuesday. On Monday it was a big fight when the Muslims were trying to bother the army, and they were being fired - shot by the army.