Holy-war calls at rally

Jakarta - Hundreds of thousands of chanting Indonesian Muslims massed in Jakarta yesterday calling for a holy war following Muslim…

Jakarta - Hundreds of thousands of chanting Indonesian Muslims massed in Jakarta yesterday calling for a holy war following Muslim-Christian conflict in the Maluku islands.

The protesters started to flood into the Independence Monument Square at dawn in the largest demonstration against the government's failure to end the bloodshed in the Malukus. The three-hour rally ended with a mass prayer. The crowd then went to the nearby Istiqlal mosque.

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