No Gunning for Peace

Martial law is not the best way to restore peace in Ambon. A return to the Malino pact is a better alternative.

May 7, 2002

The wounds which are yet to heal are bleeding again. Unless the violence is immediately stopped, the blood will flow uncontrollably, sending Ambon—no longer the manise (sweet) Ambon it once was—back into the dark age, the age of jahiliyah, when lives virtually had no value. Some of us may be tired of or perhaps immune to stories about people dying every day in the conflict; or in frustration, begin to ask why God has not yet sent

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