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Article: Suharto trial date penciled in: Whether Indonesia's former leader will show to answer corruption charges on Aug. 31 is in question.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- August 25, 2000
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He was a five-star Army general who took over the country during a bloodbath that cost 600,000 lives. Ruling as the big man of Southeast Asia for 32 years, Indonesians dared not openly talk about former President Suharto except in praise. When student protesters toppled his government in 1998, their rallying cry was, "Suharto is the door."
On Aug. 31 that door may crack open a few more inches, when the elderly, ailing Suharto, now living under "city arrest," has his first trial date on the charge of "enriching himself at the state's expense." The 400-seat Ministry of Agriculture amphitheater will be the convenient broadcast venue for a trial that officials hope ...