He has kept to himself the story of one of the most heartrending tragedies of this country's history: the rapes of May 1998. He is Dr. Lie A. Dharmawan. Few people know that this medical doctor, a specialist in thorax-cardiac surgery who graduated from Freie University, Germany, was one of the key witnesses to that turbulence.

As chairman of a team of medical volunteers at the Kalynamitra Foundation, Lie took to the field to help a number of