An Officer's Nightmare

A military officer testified: during the May riots, the apparatus were ordered not to deal rudely with the rioters.

May 20, 2003

The small house at the end of the road looks more like an electricity transformer box than a house. It occupies a small piece of land of 25 square meters in a corner of a town in East Java, its walls have only one door and a small window, whose curtain is always closed.

It is there that Bambang (not his real name) lives. Not many people know that he's a retired military man. Still more people don't realize, that Bambang is one of the importan

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