Blood on Mecca’s Veranda

Chaos has gradually become the normal state of affairs in Aceh. The so-called Mecca’s veranda continues to wallow in blood.

December 4, 2000

MUKSALMINA was in the chili garden with his father when a bullet pierced her left chest. On that fine Saturday morning, on October 21 this year, the five-year-old girl barely had time to scream out before death arrived. Her father, Syamsul Bahri, 35, was badly injured, while his nephew, Zulkarnain, 18, was shot in the neck. On the same day, a bullet also hit a boy who had just left school for the day. And a man died from gunshot wounds that p

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