The Kings Thread in Ambons Skies

The Maluku Sovereignty Front is accused of treason and of helping set off the Ambon riots in 1999. Its leaders deny this and say they have no link to the defeated Republic of South Maluku.

April 30, 2002

The Maluku Sovereignty Front was flying high in the sky over Ambon last week, or at least its flag and symbols were. It held a big fiesta to celebrate what it regards as an important anniversary, April 25, the day in 1950 when the Republic of South Maluku (RMS) was declared. The flag of the Kings Thread, the four-colored flag adopted by the RMS during its brief life, was not only flying from the coconut or durian trees. They even flew it from ga

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