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`Witch doctors' killed in Java
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BANYUWANGI, Indonesia The killers of Usma's husband arrived at
night. There were 20 men in the gang who set fire to their coconut
palm and bamboo hut. As the couple rushed from the rising flames,
her husband, Abdullah, was struck on the head.
"I ran for help, but when I returned he was dead," she said
Tuesday. His body was found hacked about the head and ankles, and
his throat had been slit.
Like other victims of a series of slaughters terrorizing a small
corner of Eastern Java in Indonesia, Abdullah was accused of being a
witch doctor.
"He wasn't a black magician, but everybody said ...
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