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Army soldiers and police officers were fought a pitched battle at dawn on Monday in Ambon city, leaving three civilians injured. The brawl broke out as a wedding reception was winding down into the wee hours in Nusaniwe district of the city.
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A bomb exploded near a church early Thursday in an eastern Indonesian city, but no one was injured, a police chief said. Lt. Col. Leonidas Braksan said the blast occurred at 3:30 a.m. in Ambon, the capital of the Maluku island chain, where fighting between Muslims and Christians between 1999 and 2001 killed 9,000 people.
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Nineteen people were injured in sectarian violence in the eastern Indonesian province of Maluku, police said Tuesday. The violence erupted late Monday, when a hand grenade hurled by two unidentified men on a motorcycle exploded in a Muslim neighborhood in the provincial capital, Ambon, injuring five residents, said local police chief Lt. Col. Leonidas Braksan.
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A bomb killed one person and injured 13 people in the Christian sector of Indonesia's Ambon city and police defused another device planted near a church. The blast at Batumeja market at around 10:30 am -- the third in the city in three days -- sparked panic among residents and shoppers. A nurse at Bakti Rahayu hospital nine injured people were being treated, of whom three were in serious condition. A nurse at the Maluku Protestant Church Hospital said five people were admitted and one of them later died.
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A bomb exploded in Indonesia’s restive eastern city of Ambon, injuring five people, three of them seriously, police and hospital staff said on Sunday. Three young men were seriously injured and hospitalised, said a nurse at the Halong navy hospital in Ambon, who asked not to be identified.
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A meeting of Christian and Muslim leaders and National Police chief Gen. Da'i Bachtiar ended in disarray here on Monday, after conflicting parties failed to reach an agreement to cease the renewed clashes in Ambon, Maluku. The breakdown in the talks is expected to worsen the sectarian conflict in the restive city, where at least 38 people have died in renewed clashes that erupted on April 25, triggered by a separatist rally.
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The police chief of Indonesia's Maluku province has been replaced following week-long Muslim-Christian battles in which 38 people were killed and hundreds of buildings were torched. Brigadier General Bambang Sutrisno has been shifted to a new assignment at police headquarters in Jakarta, national police spokesman Paiman announced on local radio. He did not link the transfer directly to the violence.
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Another 100 paramilitary police have been sent to the troubled Indonesian city of Ambon as the death toll from a week of violence between Christian separatists and Muslims rose to 38. An 18-year-old man shot in the head by a sniper on Wednesday died from his wounds overnight at the Al Fatah hospital, a doctor there said. Authorities had on Saturday said that 37 people had died in a renewal of clashes which killed 5,000 over three years until a pact was signed in February 2002.
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At least 13 people were injured as gun-fire and explosions rocked the eastern Indonesian city of Ambon early today after week-long Muslim-Christian clashes that have left 37 people dead. Thirteen people were taken to Al Fatah hospital with burns and injuries caused by home-made bomb explosions just before dawn after fighting in three areas — Tanah Lapang Kecil, Jalan Baru and Trikora, a hospital official said.
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At least 13 people have been injured as gunfire and explosions rocked the eastern Indonesian city of Ambon after week-long Muslim-Christian clashes that have left 37 people dead. Thirteen people were taken to Al Fatah hospital with burns and injuries caused by home-made bomb explosions just before dawn after fighting in three areas -- Tanah Lapang Kecil, Jalan Baru and Trikora, a hospital official said.
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Christians in Indonesia's Maluku province and Christian campaigners abroad have reacted with alarm to reports that a disbanded Islamist militia may re-form and deploy to the troubled region amid a new outbreak of violence there. Indonesia's cabinet was meeting Thursday to discuss the violence. At least 36 people have been killed in the city of Ambon since Sunday, in the most serious deterioration there since thousands died between 1999 and 2002.
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Religious leaders accused on Tuesday "third parties" of inciting the renewed violence in Ambon, Maluku province, and urged police to take firm action where necessary.
Muslim, Protestant, Catholic, Hindu, Buddhist and Confucian leaders from the Indonesian Committee for Religion and Peace said that "provocation" was the best explanation for the violence that had killed over 30 since Sunday. In the past few years people in Maluku have been wary of any signs of the violence that led to thousands being killed since 1999.
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Tension gripped the Indonesian city of Ambon on Wednesday after a church and homes were torched overnight, as the death toll from four days of clashes between Muslims and Christians rose to 36. A Protestant church in the district of Karang Panjang was burned late on Tuesday but there were no reports of deaths in the attack, officials said. National police spokesman Bashir Barmawi said the death toll since the outbreak of fighting on Sunday was 36, with 156 wounded.
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Gunfire and explosions rocked this provincial capital on Wednesday, leaving at least eight wounded as Christians and Muslims clashed for a fourth day in Indonesia's Maluku islands. Shortly after dawn, unidentified assailants launched attacks in several districts of Ambon. Plumes of smokes could be seen rising from at least two locations, and gunfire rang out across the religiously-divided city for several hours.
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Snipers killed one policeman and wounded two in Indonesia's strife-torn Ambon on Tuesday as police and soldiers patrolled the streets to restore order, officials and witnesses said. The death toll from clashes between Christian and Muslim residents rose to 30, police said, but most of the deaths were from fighting on Sunday, and there were signs the violence in the capital of the eastern Moluccas islands was easing.
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A sniper shot dead a paramilitary policeman and injured another on Tuesday in the eastern Indonesian city of Ambon, where hundreds of police and troops have deployed to quell Muslim-Christian battles. A witness and a hospital doctor confirmed the death of First Private Lalu Safruddin, who arrived only on Monday when reinforcements were sent from Jakarta to the city in the Maluku islands.
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Fresh clashes erupted on Monday between Muslims and Christians in Indonesia's eastern city of Ambon and officials said the death toll from weekend violence had risen to 23. Early evening drizzle put out fires from buildings and houses torched by rampaging mobs in Ambon, once a scenic seaside town but which partly lies in ruins following years of sectarian violence.
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Fresh clashes erupted on Monday between Muslims and Christians in Indonesia's eastern city of Ambon and the interior minister said the death toll from weekend violence had risen to 18. Residents said they could hear sporadic gunfire across the Moluccas provincial capital as police and army reinforcements arrived in the city. It was not clear who was firing.
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Sporadic shooting, bombing and arson continued in the eastern Indonesian city of Ambon after an outbreak of Muslim-Christian violence killed at least 11 people and injured scores. The sound of blasts and shotgun fire could be heard Monday and dark smoke columns rose from various districts following deadly clashes the previous day, residents said.
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Police reinforcements are being rushed to an area where 12 people have been killed in communal fighting on the island of Ambon in eastern Indonesia. The fighting between Christians and Muslims in Ambon City is the most significant threat to a peace accord that has held for more than two years and was reached after earlier fighting killed 5,000 people in the Maluku province.
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A church and a UN office were torched and at least four people killed on Sunday as Muslim and Christian residents of the eastern Indonesia city of Ambon fought pitched street battles, witnesses and police said. Dozens of people were also injured as mobs rampaged through a majority Christian area of the provincial capital of the Moluccas province, witnesses said.
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Three people including a child died when a homemade bomb stored in the ceiling of their home exploded as they slept in eastern Indonesia's Halmahera Island, police said.
Four other people were wounded, a hospital official said. It's true there was a bomb explosion at about 1:30 last night (1530 GMT)," said Inspector Irwan Nasution, chief of police in Tobelo town.
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Indonesia has lifted a three-year state of emergency in the eastern Maluku islands, where clashes between Muslims and Christians have left more than 5,000 dead. Home Affairs Minister Hari Sabarno announced the end of the emergency during the inauguration of the new governor of Maluku province, Karel Albert Ralahalu, in the city of Ambon.
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Unidentified assailants hurled a bomb at a bus in Indonesia's religiously divided Maluku province on Tuesday, sparking a mob attack that left two people injured, police said. No one was hurt in the blast in the provincial capital, Ambon. It was the first violent incident in several months in the region, which has seen three years of bloody Christian Muslim violence.
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Laskar Jihad, a Muslim militia group that has sent members to help Muslims battle Christians in the Maluku islands and elsewhere has disbanded and begun withdrawing from the strife-torn region, Wirawan Adnan, the group's lawyer, said on Tuesday. "Laskar Jihad disbanded last week," Wirawan Adnan told AFP."We deem that its existence is no longer needed since the government has realized that separatism exists in Maluku," he said.
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A bomb exploded in Indonesia's volatile Ambon city as police tried to defuse it on Wednesday, wounding six people including two police officials. Residents had found a suspicious package in a market place and called police, a police spokeswoman said. "The bomb exploded when police tried to disarm it, hurting two of them and also four civilians," the spokeswoman said by telephone from Ambon.
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Powerful bomb-like explosions hit Indonesia's troubled city of Ambon on Saturday, injuring 51 people, 10 of them seriously, a local official said on Saturday. Martin Djari, chief official at Ambon's information department, told Reuters there was more than one blast and they struck around 10:30 a.m. local time (0130 GMT). "It's so sad. The explosions happened at Mardika, a busy shopping area... Many people have been injured," he said.
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Indonesian militant Muslim group Laskar Jihad handed over hundreds of weapons ranging from rifles to homemade bombs to the military in the strife-torn Moluccas on Sunday. But the group said those were only a small part of its supplies and before giving up additional arms it would like to see authorities take more action against a radical Christian faction in the area and to ensure the safety of Muslims.
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Assailants in black masks hacked, shot and burned to death 14 Christians, including a six-month-old baby, in the religiously divided capital of Indonesia's Maluku province Sunday, threatening a fragile peace pact. Carrying automatic rifles, grenades and daggers, about a dozen men yelling "kill them all" stormed the mainly Christian village of Soya on Ambon's outskirts, 1,600 miles east of Jakarta, witnesses said.
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Indonesian security forces fired warning shots on Saturday to disperse protesting Muslims in the eastern city of Ambon, wounding one demonstrator in the second such incident in as many days. Ambon is the capital of the Moluccas islands, scene of religious violence that has killed at least 5,000 people in the last three years.
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Indonesian police in the eastern city of Ambon wounded at least one person on Friday when they fired warning shots to keep a massive Muslim rally from spilling into the city's Christian areas, witnesses said. Earlier, Jakarta officials said police numbers in the troubled city were being bolstered after several explosions rocked an area near the Muslim quarter on Thursday, wounding at least two people and triggering a mob to set fire to a church.
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Several explosions rocked an area near the Muslim quarter of Indonesia's eastern city of Ambon on Thursday, wounding at least two people and triggering a mob to torch a church, police and witnesses said. The fresh bout of violence coincided with the anniversary of a local Christian separatist group and came despite a peace pact reached between Christians and Muslims in February.
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Fearful that a pro-independence celebration on Friday could lead to clashes between Muslims and Christians, authorities in Indonesia's Maluku province have imposed a news blackout for the rest of the month.
The news blackout - first put in place on April 10 - is part of a widespread crackdown aimed at keeping the peace in the war-torn province 2,600 kilometers (1,600 miles) east of Jakarta.
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At least three people were killed and 12 others injured in a clash between Christian villagers in Indonesia's eastern Moluccas islands, the official Antara news agency reported on Thursday. A local police official confirmed the clash took place on Wednesday night between residents of two villages, but said it was not related to three years of Christian-Muslim violence that has seen over 5,000 deaths across the Moluccas.
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A car bomb exploded in the capital of Maluku province on Wednesday killing four people and injuring 43, in the first major violation of a cease-fire signed in February to end years of Muslim-Christian violence. The blast shattered windows of a hotel and caused extensive damage to a shop and a restaurant in a Christian-controlled part of the port city of Ambon, police chief Lt. Col. Noviantoro said.
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A minor clash on Saturday failed to prevent Muslims and Christians in the city of Ambon in Maluku province from continuing to mend fences after years of violence. Public activities across the town returned to normal on Sunday, with people from both communities gathering in small groups and talking with each other.
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Thousands of Muslims and Christians mingled freely in a parade across the Maluku capital of Ambon on Thursday to express their happiness with and support for the recent peace accord, local leaders and residents said.
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Christian and Muslim leaders from Indonesia's eastern Maluku islands on Monday began talks to end three years of sectarian bloodshed in which some 9,000 people have died, an official said.
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Three years ago, a petty dispute between a local and two migrants in the Ambon capital of Maluku degenerated into a full-scale sectarian riot which up to this year has killed 9,000 people and forced more than 500,000 people out of their homes.
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At least 10 people were killed in two separate incidents in Ambon on Wednesday, an official and reports say. The latest incident took place around 8 a.m. local time Wednesday when an assembled bomb, fastened under the seat of a motorcycle, exploded in Slamet Riyadi Port in Ambon, killing three people instantly. Ambon Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Hasanuddin said from Ambon by phone that the driver and the passenger of the motorcycle died instantly when the bomb exploded.
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North Maluku Governor Muhyi Effendie said Friday a total of 2,004 people had been killed in the past eight months while another 197,000 had been forced to flee their homes.
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Hundreds of armed rioters from Tulehu andTial villages initiated fresh attack on Tuesday morning in Sulivillage, Salahutu district, in Ambon, Central Maluku, by firing mortars and homemade bombs. The incident had claimed two fatalities including one police officer, while local residents said 27 attackers died in their village and 19 of them had been properly buried.
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Community clashes which erupted in the Hative Besarvillage in the Teluk Ambon Baguala district of Ambon Island onTuesday have brought the death toll in the riot torn town to atleast 32 people.
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With open attacks largely suppressed in Ambon, sniper fire has become the most immediate concern for many residents. Throughout the city sporadic solo gunfire, believed to come from gunmen hiding in ruble and vacated buildings, could be heard as the state of civil emergency in Maluku and North Maluku entered its third day on Thursday.
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Shooting and explosions continued to rage some parts of Ambon in Maluku Tuesday morning despite the imposition of a civil emergency for the whole Maluku islands starting Tuesday midnight. Antara reported that gunfire and mortar explosioins were heard in Batugantung, Talake, OSM, Petak Sepuluh, and Kudamati areas in Ambon. Bomb explosions were also heard in Baguala subdistricts.
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The United States on Monday (or Tuesday here) urged the Indonesian government to stop violence between Muslims and Christians in the Maluku islands -- the fabled spice islands -- saying the security forces were either unable or unwilling to act. The State Department also said the Jakarta government should stop outside groups traveling to the islands to take part in the fighting and exacerbate the tensions. "We are deeply concerned by the intensifying cycle of violence and retaliation between Christian and Muslim communities," said spokesman Philip Reeker.
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Sectarian clashes continued in Ambon on Thursday, bringing the death toll to 27 since violence first re-erupted on Tuesday. Six people were killed on Thursday when mobs rampaged through Ahuru subdistrict, five kilometers east of here, burning the Waihoka community health post, the Petra church and dozens of houses in the area.
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