Indonesians loot Chinese shops
10 years ago, the Indonesians ran amok, raping Chinese girls,
looting shops and setting buildings on fire.
Never forget what they did:
SEE NY Times Report here.
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In addition to the looting and arson that was largely aimed at
Chinese neighborhoods in three days of rioting in Jakarta last
month, human rights and women's aid groups have begun to document
what they say appears to have been an organized campaign of
assaults, gang rapes and killings of ethnic Chinese women.
The aid workers say they have talked with dozens of victims or
relatives of victims and they estimated today that more than 100
women and girls may have been attacked and raped in Jakarta alone
as their neighborhoods were burning between May 13 and 15. There
were reports of similar attacks during riots in other cities that
preceded the fall of President Suharto on May 21.
One worker at a women's aid center, Sita Kayam, said she
believed that hundreds of women were receiving physical or
psychological help at hospitals here.
Other aid workers said most of the victims remained too
traumatized to talk about their experiences and too terrified of
reprisals to report their ordeals to officials or even to
unofficial rape centers. The police said no reports of rape had
been brought to the authorities.
Another worker at the women's aid center, Ita F. Nadia, said
some women had committed suicide after their ordeals.
The reported attacks ranged from the degrading and humiliating
to the horrific; from women who were made to strip and perform
calisthenics in public to women who were repeatedly raped and then
thrown into the flames of burning buildings.
The reports involve girls and women ranging in age from 10 to
55, the aid workers said. Some were gang-raped in front of a crowd
in the Chinese commercial district of Glodok, said Rita Kolibonso,
executive director of the women's group Mitra Perempuan.
''Some of the rapists said, 'You must be raped because you are
Chinese and non-Muslim,' '' said Ms. Ita, who works at a crisis
center called Kalyana Mitra. Ethnic Chinese citizens, who control
much of the country's commerce, have been targets of violence in
Indonesia for years.
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Go to Hell Indonesia
We will never forget ......
