Silence-Breaking Images

ANXIETY lined the old woman’s face. The smile on her thin lips failed to cover her pain. Tears kept welling up in her aged eyes, which often moved back and forth as she recalled the cruel events that befell her dozens of years ago, when she was just a young girl turning into a woman.

Hilde Janssen, a Dutch journalist, met the woman in a quiet hotel in Semarang. She said her name was Paini. She is 80 years old and now lives in Semarang with her

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