A Rose, By Any Other Name...

The kidnapping of activists is a blemish on Kopassus that hasn’t disappeared. Both sides are striving for reconciliation, but not all the victims agree with it.

April 24, 2001

The world hasn’t forgotten. A tired and weary face, fingers holding a rosary firmly, a person telling the story of troops that kidnapped him. The world hasn’t forgotten Pius Lustrilanang, who, on April 27, 1998, testified how, one dark February, he was tortured with electricity, kicked, immersed in water, interrogated by his kidnappers to get the answers they wanted. The mass media would later announce that the kidnapping was carri

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