The still night was broken by the sound of gunfire. Wahyudin was passing water outside the guard post when a bullet hit him in the chest. He fell to the ground as his fellow nocturnal vigilantes, startled by the shooting, ran out and fled for safety. Restraining himself with pain, Wahyudin feigned death. "They thought I was dead so they left me alone," Wahyudin later told doctors.

Wahyudin, 24, was the latest victim in the renewed violence tha