ATTACKED BY DYAKS
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) DJAKARTA, Nov 29. About 40,000 hungry and penniless Chinese refugees—some so desperate that they have sold their children—are living in squalor after being driven from their homes by West Borneo’s head-hunting Dyak tribesmen. The Chinese, mostly farmers and traders, fled their villages in the jungled interior of West Borneo in recent weeks after an indiscriminate rampage of killing and plunder by the tribesmen. Inflamed by the kidnappings and murder of tribesmen carried out by Communist Chinese rebels, the Dyaks struck at all Chinese in an orgy of beheadings, cannibalism and destruction. Now the refugees are packed into wooden huts along the coast of West Borneo, short of rice and presenting the Indonesian authorities with a huge food and administrative problem.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31540, 30 November 1967, Page 15
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