Ambon's Religious Bloodbath - Indonesia

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It's no wonder inhabitants are risking their lives to leave a Place where there is so much death. Rare video captures a mob wielding machetes and fire-bombing houses. "I took out my sword and took off four heads," says one gang member. 50,000 Muslims gather at the dock to escape, clambering up makeshift ropes onto an overcrowded ship. Christians soon arrive on another boat, refugees from a different island. They are chased back to their ship. The army is all that stands between the factions. Many accuse local criminals of exploiting religious tension to gain power in the vacuum left by Suharto. The migration policies that forced the archipelago together are now falling apart, and the islands are left hanging together by a fine political thread.

ABC Australia

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: November 23, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Author: journeymanpictures

Length: 00:20:42
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Video Comments:
punchface111 (October 10, 2008 at 7:26 pm)
Both sides are not really muslim or christian because they are using violence. I do believe though that muslims try to push there religion and rules on people which can cause problems.
benrauf (September 28, 2008 at 11:28 pm)
karelingab. aku dari malaysia. negara aku pun tidak sebaik mana. tapiaku mencintai tanah air aku dan sentiasa berusaha mengubahnya menjadi tanah yang baik bagi kami rakyat jelata. aku berharap anda menghentikan nista anda kepada negara anda. jika anda membenci indonesia, keluar sahaja dari negara.
karelingab (October 8, 2008 at 4:30 am)
Saya tidak dari Indonesia. Saya dari Guam. Kami bersenang menghina dan mendasar negara Indonesia kerana negara Indonesia memang sudah negara neraka sejati.
karelingab (September 28, 2008 at 3:37 am)
We enjoy insulting Indonesia and burn Indonesian flag everyday, because of the presence of abuse, grabbing Papua state, corruption, religion, religious intolerance, conflicts, sexual morality, crimes, repression against non-pigs(kafirs), double standards among gendcers, media and sexual censorship and most of all, the prersence of anti-porn law. Bangsat Indonesia! Dasar Indonesia! Goblok Indonesia!
karelingab (September 28, 2008 at 3:31 am)
Indonesia is not a hell, if there are no violence, religious conflicts, religious intolerance, corruption, abuse, repression against human rights protection, poverty, crimes, smoking, double standard of life, sexual morality and censorship in any all media, especially sexes.
karelingab (September 28, 2008 at 3:22 am)
Mari kita melihat dimana antara negara saya dan negara kamu adalah banyak kekerasan besar, konflik agama, tanpa yakin antara sejenis agama, korupsi, ugutan, tindasan pada hak2x manusia, kemiskinan, jenayah, merokok, standar gandah di hidup dan budaya, moral seksual dan sensoran pada semua sejenis seks. Negara yang ada di sini dalam dibilang saya ini adalah neraka sejati, sepanjang masa dan berdominasi oleh babi sejati.
lansanak (September 27, 2008 at 6:42 am)
this war started by cristian people rightly at idul fitri
they planned this killing carefully and secretly
karelingab (September 26, 2008 at 8:36 am)
Siapa antara kita yang banyak kekerasan? Dimana negara kita yang banyak korupsi? Kita lihat kepada sendiri kita!
karelingab (September 26, 2008 at 8:34 am)
Lebih baik kami tidak percaya ada tuhan daripada sudah babi sejati. Hanya babi sejati ada agama. Agama adalah budaya babi sejati aja, selamanya dan kami menyenang menista dan mendasar pada warga Indonesia, sehari-hari. Kami menista warga Indonesia yang ada moral seksual, selamanya. Kami membakar bendera bangsa Indonesia setiap hari, waktu warga Indonesia masih ada undang2x dilarang porno xxx.
dwihartono (September 26, 2008 at 4:19 am)
Please.....
Let;s United My Country..
...Semua Saudara....