Innocents LostAgain
As the police were chasing down a drug dealer, two children were killed. Was it carelessness or lack of training?
June 3, 2003
IT was as if the crowd in Kebon Jeruk XI, Taman Sari, West Jakarta last Monday afternoon was in cahoots with the heat and the hullabaloo. Nevertheless, the situation didn't prevent toddler Eli from playing with her mother Mela, 24. Their light, tuneful laughter could be heard in the air. The child had just had her bath and the scent of soap could be smelt on her small body. Yet, without warning, as Mela hitched her daughter up in her arms, a p
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