Saturday, January 12, 2008

Former Indonesian dictator is placed on a ventilator

Doctors placed Indonesia’s ailing former dictator Suharto on a ventilator yesterday in their struggle to save the life of the man who led a government accused of killing hundreds of thousands of people.

Suharto, 86, who was deposed amid mass protests and rioting in 1998, was taken to the hospital a week ago, suffering from a weakening heart and anemia.

Doctors said that his health had deteriorated yesterday as his blood pressure and hemoglobin levels dropped

Source:www.journalnow.com

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