An 800-Day Mystery
Tuesday, January 7, 2003
Christmas Eve two years ago coincided with the end of Ramadan. It should have been a peaceful evening: Christians absorbed in midnight prayer services and Muslims in Qur’an recitations. But everybody knows that the night turned into hell. Bombs exploded in 38 places, mostly churches, in various cities throughout Indonesia: Jakarta, Bandung, Mojokerto, Medan, Batam, Pekanbaru, Sukabumi, Mataram and Pematangsiantar. No less than six provinces
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