Burying July 27
Tuesday, January 6, 2004
ON July 27, 1996 protestors attacked and burnt down the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) headquarters in Jakarta, sparking a chain of riots throughout the capital. Five people were killed and hundreds of others wounded during the incident.
The circumstances surrounding the July 27 incident remain shrouded in mystery and last weeks verdict by the Central Jakarta District Court may have helped obscure any memory of the incident. The cries of ang
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