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Sean - We got some similar e-mailed reports during the Indonesian riots.  I
was able to confirm the reports through other sources -- although I saw
nothing in the US press at the time, because the US press was convinced
this was a "bloodless coup" and "people power" and all that crap.
(Recently, we were alerted to some sites full of gruesome photos of these
mob rapes.)

One of Tabloid's columnists, Charlie Hornberger, included the reports in
some of his stuff about the riots.  Over the next month or two, we hunted
down a few more bits and gave them heavy play, because they were horrifying
tales and we figured *somebody* in the US would pick up the story.  While
the SCMP and a few other Asian/Australian papers have recently done good
reports on the racist rape mobs, the story remains quiet here at home.
Pretty repulsive.

Charlie's piece, which quotes one of these email reports at length, is at 

http://tabloid.net/hornberger/previous/16/A3-bulletin.html

http://tabloid.net/1998/06/05/B1.html 

Our main wire service, AFP, has slowly started moving some stories about
this.  Not a helluva lot from AP, UPI or Reuters -- and not a peep from
them when it was going on.  I guess footage of Jakarta students singing
"Imagine" is a lot sexier than brutal gang rapes in the same city,
happening at the same time.  Besides, Indonesia is full of semiconductor
and tennis-shoe factories ... no point in spooking the investors.

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>Subject: When news comes to you?
>From: Sean Peck 
>Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 12:13:44 -0400 (EDT)
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>I am curious about a few things, more news in general, but do have an
online bent.  Now that the public has more access (at least in theory) to
the media via Email etc.... has this had any impact on what stories get
covered?  I would say at least a few times a month someone sends email to
my site regarding one story or another from around the world that is not
getting attention... sometimes it is activists just hoping for an outlet
other times the stories seem to revolve around very serious problems.  I
assume others out there have gotten the same types of things... have any
of these led to coverage of a story that was not covered before?  And with
the Internet being what it is... are you more suspicious that you are
being hoaxed or not because it came to you this way.
>If this seems off topic, I apologize in advance, I just got an email from
a group claiming severe human rights violations, including rape and murder
by military forces during the Indonesian riots not long ago, and it just
got me wondering.
>	Sean

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