THE incident 11 years ago at the Sinar Makmur construction materials shop at Bengkulu is branded in Rizal Sinurat's memory. He was arrested by the police for stealing bird's nests, along with five associates-Irwansyah Siregar, Dony Yefrizal, M. Rusliansyah, Mulyan Johan and Dedi Nuryadi.

Sometime past midnight they were taken to the Panjang Beach part of the Nature Tourism Park in Bengkulu. The police shot them in the leg, one by one. Then they we