Snipers take positions atop charred and bullet-pocked buildings as darkness falls.
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.