BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, MAY 12, 1998) MARIA RESSA, CNN JAKARTA BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over): At least four students are dead, 10 injured, after riot police shot into a crowd of students demonstrating at Jakarta's Trisakti University.</s>MIKE CHINOY, CNN HONG KONG BUREAU CHIEF: President Suharto had ruled Indonesia with an iron fist for more than 30 years. The Suharto regime had been marked by massive corruption and graft. There were growing protests, led my students, demanding an end to the Suharto regime, an end to corruption and nepotism, and for economic justice. (</s>BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, MAY 12, 1998) RESSA: Some say a sniper opened fire from an overhead crossing bridge. Students say the violence made no sense.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The students is not guilty.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What they did is just like slaughtering babies.</s>CHINOY: That was the spark that lit the fuse for the explosion which overthrew the Suharto government. My camera team and I flew into Jakarta a couple of days later. We arrived at a city in terrifying chaos. Crowds roaming the streets. looting, burning, attacking people. The police and the army seemed to have disappeared. The whole society seemed to unravel. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, there were all kinds of back room maneuverers, which led, within a week, to Suharto's resignation.
CNN 20: Jakarta Student Protests Turn Violent, May 12, 1998