Burning Desire for Real Peace

The prolonged conflicts in Poso are subsiding. The streets are safe, but some still demand justice.

January 15, 2002

THE morning dew remains. A soft breeze teases the streets. Sirang, a 42-year-old from Tokorondo village in the district of Poso Pesisir, Central Sulawesi, pounds the earth with his hoe. A machete dangles from his belt as this cocoa farmer works the 2 hectares of land. He looks over his cocoa beans carefully. Some of his produce has been destroyed by the ongoing conflicts, ongoing for the past three years. He doesn't seem worried, cautious or ex

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