Jasih

January 11, 2005

JASIH set herself on fire and burnt to death, and we sinned. We must admit it. We probably helped to kill her, or we stood in our rooms with a sin like this, for we allowed ourselves to not know there was a 39-year-old mother in such despair that she took her own life and that of Galuh, her 4-year-old daughter who was suffering from brain cancer, and she had no money for treatment. We sinned because Jasih was so poor—her debt of Rp5 mil

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