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No trace found of ship carrying Indonesian refugees
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No trace found of ship carrying Indonesian refugees
Crowded ferry, with wounded war victims aboard, reported it was in
heavy seas with engines dead
By SETH MYDANS
New York Times
Saturday, July 1, 2000
Jakarta, Indonesia -- They pushed and jostled in panic to board
the battered ferry, witnesses said, fleeing a massacre in which up to
200 of their fellow villagers had been killed.
They were the lucky ones, mostly women and children as well as
more than 3...
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