The team of visum doctors did not conduct internal autopsies; opening up the bodies. But their examinations were very detailed. They found authentic proof that the victims suffered heavy injuries and died because they were shot at close range. They found Soetojo's skull crushed, both of M.T. Harjono's hands bound with a batik cloth, and a stab wound in Pierre Tendean's stomach. In forensic science, those aren't marks of systematic torture. Furthermore, there were no razorblade marks. "An example of such torture is when the body is sliced up until the victim screams in pain, the slicing stops, and then starts again, and so on," said Lim, who studied medical science at the San Antonio University in Texas, USA. But he concluded that the generals did indeed "suffer a brutal and inhuman execution." With regard to the gouged-out eyes, the team of doctors was convinced that it was due to decomposition. After they examined the condition around the eye bone of each skull one by one, not a single case of gouging was found from the condition of the victims' eye sockets. This was described in detail in the visum et repertum report that TEMPO recently obtained. The document was a copy of an original copy from documents presented at the Extraordinary Military Court of Air Force intelligence officer, Heru Atmodjo in 1966-1967. The 29-page document described the clothes that the victims wore and the condition of the bodies from head to toe. Including the description that four had been circumcised, and the rest had not. Ben Anderson, a researcher from Cornell University in America, wrote in 1987 that President Sukarno, as quoted by the Antara news agency on 12 December 1965, criticized the reporters who wrote exaggerated and sensational news. It was highly likely that Bung Karno said that because he was quoting from the findings in the visum report. Unfortunately, the document was not later used as a reference--it was as if it had vanished into thin air. Without much fanfare, the report surfaced a year later when several closed military courts were held at the end of 1966. Doctor Lim himself said that he never saw the document again after he signed it 37 years ago, in October 1965. Even evidence of a 4.7-mm bullet that he secretly recovered from one of the victims' bodies had disappeared. Is it possible that the visum documents and the above evidence were deliberately made to disappear from 1965 to 1966, by someone at a senior level at that time? No one knows for sure. What is certain is that a TEMPO source who was present on 4 October 37 years ago at the autopsy surgery at RSPAD, saw Commander of the Army's Strategic Reserves Command, Maj. Gen. Suharto, observing proceedings at close range for an hour while the generals' autopsy reports were being processed. Dwi Arjanto, Ignatius Haryanto, Darmawan Sepriyossa