From Ambon and Scorched Ruins

AMBON is still haunted by scorched ruins. On both sides of the streets: dismal rubble. People in this Moluccan town still talk in great detail about the long period of savagery that started early in 1999 and continued almost to 2005: their houses burned to the ground, churches, mosques and universities razed, bombs assembled and detonated, speedboats attacked, thugs and paramilitary from outside Ambon stirring up hatred, the milit