Army of God from Cibarusah
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
ABOUT 500 youths dressed in blue shirts and pants marched out from their bamboo barracks at Desa Cibarusah in Bekasi, West Java, for a ceremony marking the start of training as members of a volunteer army called Hizbullah.
That morning in February 1945, Japanese military officials were inaugurating Hizbullah (Army of God) in Japanese-occupied Indonesia. Present were leaders of Majelis Syuro Muslimin Indonesia (Masyumi), including deputy chairman
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