AZHARI used to be king on Sundays: the remote control of the television set at his parental home was always in the 10-year-old lad's hands every Sunday morning. His parents and his elder brother, a student at senior high school, had to resign themselves to just joining him in watching his favorite robot animation film, in spite of their different taste.

December 26, 2004, was the last such Sunday. The movie was still running when an enormous