The Endless Nights Keeping Vigil

Abdul Madjid returns each dead person to their origin: earth and dust in the grave.

December 27, 2005

WHEN night descends on the graveyard at Siroen, Lamboro, people would hear dogs howling as if they were in conference. With cold night wind and deep, tense silence, a vision of a horror film seems to appear in the areas of Greater Aceh in the post-tsunami days. Abdul Madjid switches on his flashlight and trains it on a pack of dogs. He is stunned. The dogs are fighting over human bones!

Abdul Madjid yells at them but they do not care. Only after h

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