Fighters in every neighborhood prepare for another night of bombings and possible attack. As a 10pm curfew begins, gunfire erupts in this city of 270,000 people, where Muslims and Christians once lived largely in peace. Almost every day for two years shocking things have happened in Ambon, capital of Indonesia's Maluku province, the legendary Spice Islands. Up to 8000 people are dead and 500,000 homeless. The trauma of it shows on the faces of the Ambonese.
Few people smile.
Outsiders are not trusted. More people have been killed per head of population than in Bosnia, he says. A mob beat him to death simply because he was a Muslim. But in order to uphold the solidarity of Muslims we must eradicate the Christians. Christian Agus Wattimena claims he heads a vigilante force of 20,000 in Ambon City.