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===Theories===
There have been a number of theories regarding who was behind the killings. Some have argued that the killings were encouraged covertly by the military in an effort to destabilize the new Indonesian government, or to weaken Nahdlatul Ulama or the emerging Islamic [[National Awakening Party]].<ref name=":2" /> [[Nahdlatul Ulama]] has claimed that security forces were involved.<ref name=":2" /> The [[National Commission on Human Rights]] concluded in 2018 that the murders were "conducted by 'trained' and 'organized' assailants, and that national security forces enabled the killings by not intervening until September 1998.<ref name=":2" /> Anthropologist Nicholas Herriman interviewed many area residents and described the events as "local people killed other local residents whom they believed to be sorcerers", related to local perceptions that the government was not able to sufficiently protect them from sorcerers at the time.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Herriman |first=Nicholas |date=2007-03-01 |title=“Sorcerer” Killings in Banyuwangi: A Re-Examination of State Responsibility for Violence |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/10357820701196692 |journal=Asian Studies Review |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=61–78 |doi=10.1080/10357820701196692 |issn=1035-7823}}</ref> ▼
▲Some have argued that the killings were encouraged covertly by the military in an effort to destabilize the new Indonesian government, or to weaken Nahdlatul Ulama or the emerging Islamic [[National Awakening Party]].<ref name=":2" /> [[Nahdlatul Ulama]] has claimed that security forces were involved.<ref name=":2" /> The [[National Commission on Human Rights]] concluded in 2018 that the murders were "conducted by 'trained' and 'organized' assailants, and that national security forces enabled the killings by not intervening until September 1998.<ref name=":2" />
== Impacts ==
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