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In Bali, the holiday vibe masks memories of a massacre
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Surfers at Batu Belig beach in Bali on Nov 28.
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Hannah Beech and Muktita Suhartono
BALI – When the hotels and beach clubs were built to lure tourists to this beautiful, haunted isle, the bones emerged, white and smooth.
On one stretch of palm-fringed coast on the Indonesian island of Bali, construction for a five-star resort in the 1990s unearthed enough bones to fill half a pickup truck, said the Hindu priest called in to exorcise the ghosts.
