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Article: Militants arrive to fuel unrest on Maluku islands: Indonesia's president declared a state of emergency June 26, as Christian- Muslim fighting escalated.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 28, 2000
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A day after Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid declared a state of emergency in the strife-torn Maluku islands, paramilitaries continued to have the run of the major towns, and the hottest fighting of the year raged June 27 in the provincial capital of Ambon.
To suppress the Christian-Muslim conflict, the government took additional measures besides imposing a civil emergency, which empowers the military to impose curfews and detain suspects indefinitely. A Hindu was appointed military chief for the region in an effort to inject a sense of neutrality to a force accused of taking sides among warring factions.
But there were few signs of any imminent ...