Name: Vivian (not the real name) Age: 18 years Gender: female She had younger sister and a younger brother. She lived with her family in this tall apartment building. Around 9.15 am the apartment had already surrounded by hundreds of angry crowds. They yelled as if possessed," Kill Chinese","Let's eat pigs","Let's party". We lived on 7th floor. We were called by a relative living on 3rd floor that mobs had entered 2nd floor, there's even [residence] being chased to upper floors. We were frightened, but we all prayed to God. Then we prepared to leave the apartment, and we went to upper levels by stair, because lower levels were out of the question. We progressed up to 15th floor and stayed in an aquaintance apartment. Slightly afterward, we were surprised because from the elevator some men emerged right when we were going in. Quickly we entered and locked the door. Then we heard other doors banged upon and many screams of women and girls. In our apartment the atmosphere was tense, as we realized our turn will come. So we spread out and hid in corners. Faintly form the other room we heard girls perhaps aged 10 to 12 screamed "mami (mother).. mami... it hurts...mami...". I didn't kow what had happened.After almost half an hour waiting, things were a bit calmer, no sound heard, we dare ourselves to see. And outside, what we saw was.. unspeakable.. We saw many bodies lying around the hall, many children and girls were lying around.. Oh my God, what had happened..., my sister Veny screamed hysterically when she saw that, and embraced our father. I was crying too...Finally, with our aquaintance, a newlywed couple, we went downstair. On the 10th floor, we heard someone screaming for help. Because the screams were very near, we went inside.. But turning in an intersection, we were surprised, because there's so many men there. And I saw with my own eyes, a girl around 20 were gang-raped by 4 men, she struggled but were held down. Seeing that, we ran like hell..But alas...Veny were caught by them. I and my family tried to saved her, but we were outnumbered, there were around 60 of them. Then all of us, papa, mama, me, Veny and Doni and the couple aunt Vera and uncle Dodi were tied up using bedsheet strips. They brought us to a room. Uncle Dodi had asked them what they really wanted, without any answers, their faces were evil and ghoulish. One of them pulled Veny and dragged her to a sofa, by that time I knew she was is grave danger, I shouted on top of my lungs, and another men slapped me, then papa, who was also screaming, was hit unconsious by a wooden club, mama had already fainted.That time I only prayed to God, God don't let this disaster fell upon us.. Uncle Dodi was unsuccessfully offering money for them to leave us alone. And...Veny was raped there. I couldn't watch, hearing Veny's shrieks, I cried and closed my eyes thightly..Around 5 men raped her, and each always started by yelling,"Allahu Akbar!(God is great)"....They were sadistic... they were evil...with vicious faces...Slightly afterward, another 9 men entered the room, and dragged me, and I had also saw aunt Vera dragged as well. That time I passed out..not knowing what happened.I woke up in the evening, around 5-6pm, my head ached and I realized I was naked, and then I cried, I remembered that my family is still there... and I barely saw papa held mama and Doni. Uncle Dodi was lying on the floor while aunt Vera was crying over him. I was unable to get up...I finally fell unconsious again.The next morning I was in Pluit hospital, beside me was mama and papa, with pain all over my body, I asked, "ma.. what's wrong with Vinny, ma..?"But I felt tremendous pain even saying that. My cheeck were swollen. My mama instantly cried and was speechless, while papa smiled and holding back tears.After about 4 days in hospital, I was getting better.And papa told me what had happened with sorrow eyes...When I was unconsious, I was raped by around 7 men, that time papa couldn't see well, he still dizzy from the wooden club hit.. They raped me and tossed my body around, even banged me to walls. And after that, papa said..."Vin, Veny had left us...". That time I was confused and I didn't kow why I cried, so loud it probably heard outside.."what happened, pa????",papa didn't answer.. papa only told me to take some rest and left. I was crying as if my whole life had no longer have any meanings.After it all ended and a week ago I got out of the hospital to a relative's home, I was told what had happened to Venny. Actually, when she was raped, Veny kept struggling, so she was slapped again and again by those bastards, and the last time Venny fought, she spat one of them. Annoyed, he took out a knife (what kind of knife was unknown) and swing it to Veny's stomach, and viciously like an animal he swung the knife repeatedly, until Veny died with blood pooled around her body.Hearing that I was shocked, and papa continued, that uncle Dodi had the same fate, died before his wife who was also raped.God... why it all must happen??? This time aunt Vera was accompanied by her sister in their parent's home, and according to her sister, until today she is still in shock , daydreaming a lot, sometimes refused to have a meal. Mama also gave up. I and mama almost cried every hour upon what had happened, and i will not forget that day. They are vicious men which had lost their humanity.Fellow netter, while she told her story, she couldn't speak many thing with words, and along the story, her tears were constanly running. And hearing similar story from my friends, the same thing which kept re-occuring was the yell,"Allahu Akbar(God is great)" from those criminals. Do they think what they done is a holy crusade?To you , the so-called religious leaders, your religion is majority's religion, but good people who had love and respect toward others in your religion is minority. How about Christians, Buddhas and Hindus, whose religion is minority, but good people who had love toward others are majority. As an advice to you Moslem leaders, we respect your religion the same way we respect ours, your religion is a good one, but those teaching it didn't teach about love and respect, just listen to 98.5 FM or 95.4, if I'm not mistaken. On that radio station sermon from a mosque in Jakarta was broadcasted live. Do you know that what the speaker taught was Moslems must rise, take revenge, against Christians, against Chinese, against the governnment.To you hypocrite religious leaders, if you still do not teach to love and respect toward your own and toward other religion, I'm convinced that your religion may still be majority, but with decaying quality of believers who grow more and more vicious.REMEMBER! You had taught this, you will suffer the dire consequences from God. May God forgive you!Translated into English by mdxTranslator's note: This story had previously available also in this website in Indonesian language since 6/17/98.In latest news (7/25/98) the story's authenticity had been confirmed, now Vivian and her father had taken legal action to the police.