Bloody witch hunts in East Java, cases remain unresolved 25

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 […]

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