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Indonesian students started the movement that came to be known as reformasi. But their political innocence came to a bloody end when troops sho
t four students at a Jakarta university. The killings sparked riots, violence against ethnic Chinese and looting. In May students celebrated the end of the Suharto era, above. After that, reformasi became an excuse to do just about anything. A rash of mu
rders rocked East Java as scores were settled and debts paid. Cynics saw a hidden hand behind the violence. The students, meanwhile, tried in November to march on Parliament as the nation's leaders dithered over political reform. Again soldiers opened fir
e on protesters - and 16 more martyrs were added to the reformasi cause.
Photograph by Mike Wilbur
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