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Pak Husni’s Chains

February 3, 2010

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Heri Juanda | AP Photo

In the town of Bireuen, North Aceh, Husni, a father of five, smokes a cigarette and contemplates the world. He has little else to do, his legs being chained to a post inside the wooden cottage where he spends his days and night.

Husni became so mentally unstable one day that his wife and children decided to keep him restrained in chains, feeding him and caring for him, as if he were a little boy. Except that

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