Blood on a Prayer Mat

PLAYING soldiers is just a game, but the war in Aceh is real. Especially for a boy like Azhari M. Isa, 10. "The noise was very loud. While I was praying, I counted 12 shots. Not all together, but one by one," said the fourth grade elementary school student, whose school is now charcoal and ashes, about one clash near his village.

The boy from Cot Tarom Baroh Village, Peusangan, Bireuen, is too young to understand the thinking of the adults o

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