Frontline: Ambon, Indonesia: Religious strife wakes ghost of Nenek Luhu

From: The Independent - London | Date: April 1, 1999 | Copyright information

DRIVE UP the mountain above Ambon, and after half an hour you come to the village of Soya Atas where breezes take the edge off the heat, and where nothing seems less likely than the killing and terror in the town below. In Ambon, Christians and Muslims have burnt out one another's places of worship; but in Soya, the old cream-coloured church still sits peacefully in the square beneath its newly restored roof. Down below, people stay indoors and taxi drivers are afraid to work after dark.

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