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Hary (left) holding hands with former General Prabowo Subianto, who is allegedly a friend of the CIA.
Hary’s TV channels and newspapers supported General Prabowo in the recent Indonesian elections.
Hary is Chinese-Indonesian.
Reportedly, Prabowo’s forces raped and killed Chinese-Indonesian girls in Jakarta in May 1998.
As a result of the events of May 1998, Hary was able to buy up a number of valuable Indonesian companies.
One of Hary’s daughters.
Hary’s house takes up an entire block in a posh part of Jakarta
, son of Dr. Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, a former Finance Minister, said to have once worked with the CIA against Sukarno.
Prabowo had learnt about terrorism at Fort Bragg and Fort Benning in the US.
Prabowo’s friend Muchdi ran Kopassus (special forces) and his friend Sjafrie ran the Jakarta Area Command.
The American Defence Secretary, William Cohen, was in Jakarta in January 1998 and he visited Prabowo.
The CIA chief had also been a recent visitor to Jakarta. The CIA and the Pentagon were close to Prabowo.
Students
At the start of May 1998, students were holding peaceful demonstrations on university campuses across the country.
On May 12th, students at Jakarta’s Trisakti University, many of them the children of the elite, planned to march to parliament to present the government with their demands for reform.
Some time after 5pm, uniformed men on motorcycles appeared on the flyover which overlooks Trisakti.
Shots rang out. Four students were killed.
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Riots of May 13-14
On the 13th of May there were reports of rioting in the area around Trisakti.
President Suharto was attending a conference in Egypt and the military top brass went off to Malang in East Java to attend a ceremony.
On the 14th of May, serious rioting took place in the Jakarta area.
There were no signs of any uniformed soldiers on the streets.
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Deaths
Over 1,000 people died during these Jakarta riots, most having been burnt in malls and supermarkets but some having been shot or beaten.
Poverty is widespread in Jakarta. Jakarta Kid.
Alleged involvement of the military in planning the riots
Father Sandyawan Sumardi, a 40-year-old Jesuit priest and son of a police chief, led an independent investigation into the events of May 1998.
As a member of the Team of Volunteers for Humanitarian Causes he interviewed people who had witnessed the alleged involvement of the military in organising the riots and rapes.
(The Riot Pattern in Jakarta and Surroundings / http://www.asiaweek.com/)
A security officer alleged that Kopassus (special forces) officers had ordered the burning down of a bank;
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