Word: syamsudin
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From his grief-gouged eyes to the way he presses his hands together to stop them from shaking, it's clear that if Syamsudin Noor makes it through the next few weeks, he is still a dead man inside. Syamsudin has pushed through a crowd of fellow refugees to tell his story, describing in patient detail how a visitation of almost unimaginable brutality destroyed his remote village of Sangai in Indonesia's Kalimantan province. "All my children, my grandchildren were killed," he mourns. "They cut off their heads and then cut them up and took them away to eat. There...
...crowd around him surges in sympathy and many clamor to tell their own stories. But Syamsudin won't be interrupted. "I don't feel that I've committed any sins. We were there according to the laws of the country." He stands up straight, head raised, dignified despite the fact he is wearing only a singlet and the tattered brown trousers he had on when he fled his home. "That...
...began to seem completely irrelevant when the Dayaks, following their traditional custom, began eating the body parts of their victims to gain spiritual strength. More than 500 Madurese were butchered; 30,000 more were shipped from Borneo to Java by military and civilian boats; 15,000 more, like Syamsudin, are waiting in Sampit, desperate...
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