The Trisakti Shootings, Indonesia 1998

Witness History: Archive 2014 - A podcast by BBC World Service

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Four students from the elite Trisakti university in Jakarta were shot dead during a protest against the rule of President Suharto. Their deaths triggered days of deadly rioting. Just over a week later, the regime fell. We hear from one of the students who was there.(Photo: Rioter in Jakarta, May 1998 Credit: Associated Press)