Asians are having a really bad time. In Indonesia, one of the worse hit countries, angry protestors have brought 32 years of authoritarian rule to a sudden and dramatic end, as Time Magazine calls it the "10 days that shook Indonesia". Vice President Bucharuddin Jusuf Habibie was immediately sworn in as president of the fourth most-populous country in the world. On May 1998, Indonesian natives, blaming Chinese for the crisis, literally raped, looted, ropped and in some cases, burned alive by angry mobs of Indonesians. Chinese make up 4% of Indonesia's population but were said to control 75% of the economy. So far, over 1000 cases of murder and rape have been documented. So far, over 1000 cases of murder andrape have been documented. Also, increasing evidences indicate that minorities in East Timor were also subject to similar terror and atrocities.

In countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, Japan and the Phillipines where economy is still within the grasp of political hands, the life of their citizens are not badly affected by the economic slowdown. The lives of the people in those countries are tolerable and people still go on with their daily lives. Men work, women cook, children play. Everyone seems to still have enough money for just about everything they need. However, the people in "the better places" also live in fear, not unlike the citizens in other countries where the economic situation is worse. They too live in fear thinking about the next steps, the next moves, and the next future.

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