25 years after bloody witch hunts in East Java, cases remain unresolved Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.
BANYUWANGI, East Java (ANN/THE STRAITS TIMES) – In pitch dark, masked assailants called “ninjas” would set upon their targets, beheading or disembowelling them, before disappearing without leaving behind a trace. The “ninjas” were assailants behind some of the killings of people accused of being sorcerers in the eastern part of Indonesia’s Java island in 1998 […]