Still Nursing Old Wounds

Scores of children are engrossed in skipping ropes, soccer, and playing hide-and-seek. They run around half-naked, their emaciated bodies covered only by grubby shorts. But a child’s world still holds the wonder of happiness: as they play, their shrieks and yells spread a feeling of warmth amid the gloom which envelopes the rows of bamboo shacks at the Pontianak Haji Dormitory. The call to the sunset prayer has an effect like a referee̵

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