Trapped in Prolonged Conflict

WHERE has the man gone? Where are the two strong hands now? These questions and more keep being asked by Zarkani (real name withheld), a resident of Blang Mangat in northern Acehquestions which remain unanswered to this day. Has my father died? If so, where was he buried? Zarkani asks over and over with an empty gaze.

For 15 years Zarkani, who is now 35, keeps asking the same questions. The tall, strongly built man seems to have lost all his sense

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