History Goes Dead in Our Village

Tempo journalist Nezar Patria searches for his family house in Banda Aceh.


January 11, 2005

IT is unimaginable: the house has now been utterly destroyed! A month ago I could still have a nice sleep on the second floor of the house. Now it has been reduced to only a piece of concrete wall pointing skyward. The roof tiles have flown away God knows where. The windows have also disappeared, leaving only the window frames. Even the doorframes have come loose. In the sitting room, the chairs are upside down, all covered by black mud. A Ch

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