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09.28.06 (1:50 am)   [edit]
In the line of my work, I do tend to be overly attached sometimes to the projects I work on. And it might take a really small thing to trigger a whole chain of emotions that could potentially last quite a while.

So I was browsing through someone's blog when I came across an account on the ethnic cleansing in Indonesia. It wasn't really credible, although there were some first perspectives that were very heart wrenching. For one, to go through something as watching your family members being raped, and then getting raped yourself, it's quite hard to believe how anyone could have had that story told, and to relive it for years after.

The attached pictures helped make it too real, which was why there are doubts, but there would be truth in it.

I've heard about the stories of ethnic chinese being killed back in the late 90s, and many stories were exchanged then - some were accounts from victims, yet others from those who escaped or witnessed the mini-Holocaust. It fueled anger in many, but because too little were actually reported, probably due to political reasons, much of the emotions evoked dissipated as quickly as it swept through Asia.

[The reported attacks ranged from degrading and humiliating the women by making them to strip and perform callisthenics in public to repeatedly raping the victims and then throwing them into burning buildings. Victims were girls and women aged between 10 and 55, workers of human rights and women’s aid groups said.]

[Some of the rapists said, ‘You must be raped because you are Chinese and non-Muslim.’" said Ita Nadia, who works at a crisis centre, Kalyanamitra. Indonesian onlookers of the brutal acts like Tono, an office boy at a public relations company, dared not to help or try to stop the attacks in fear of their own safety.]

[...a housewife of Jalambar, West Jakarta, who has planned to flee with her two teenage daughters, told reporters that a couple were undergoing treatment at Bhakti Husada Hospital for deep psychological trauma as they could not accept the deaths of their three teenage girls at the family’s shop at Glodok business centre in West Jakarta on 13 May.]

["Two of the girls threw themselves into the fire that gutted the shop after they failed to help their youngest sister, who was gang-raped by a mob," she recounted. Distraught, the young girl followed her sisters by jumping into the fire from the second floor.]

[Many people remain sceptical over the government’s sincerity and ability in bringing those who masterminded and involved in the attacks to justice, as it is widely believed that the rioting was related to a struggle among key Indonesian power-holders and racial hatred was instigated to create opportune political and social conditions for a power redistribution at the top.]

[(Source: This article is compiled from information provided by the Social Welfare Guidance Foundation, which is campaigning to stop making the minorities the scapegoat in Indonesia, and press reports.)] ***Above selected passages were taken from Human Rights Solidarity website at click here

What do you make of that? Cited were cases and speculations, yet the horrors within the description are vivid and uncanny. That brought me down a little, and when I started working on a short film, it fleeted with unfocused directions.

To make it worse, I came to a part that made me close to tears, making the whole experience quite unbearable.

But perhaps that is the secret to being able to touch with my work.
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