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...Number of suspected separatist rebels that the Indonesian military claims to have killed in Aceh since martial law was declared six months...
...SENTENCED. MUHAMMAD NAZAR, 30, political activist arrested in February for promoting an Acehnese independence referendum; to five years in prison for sedition; in Banda Aceh, Indonesia...
...people have been killed in Aceh province, Indonesia, since the collapse of the peace process last month...
...KILLED. LOTHAR HEINRICH ALBERT, 54, a German tourist; by government troops; in Aceh province, Indonesia. Albert and his wife, Elizabeth Engel, arrived in Aceh for a cycling tour in late April, before hostilities between the military and separatist rebels resumed. The army says soldiers shot at the couple's campsite thinking they were guerrilla fighters. Engel was hit in the knee, and is in stable condition. The military has come under fire for being trigger-happy and killing noncombatants...
...With GAM now almost irrelevant to Aceh's future and without anyone-Jakarta, the media, activists, aid workers, foreign governments-to bear witness, the military has been free to launch what many Acehnese feel is the endgame for their people. Part of this includes the replacement of the province's 114 subdistrict chiefs with retired soldiers, which would give the military a stranglehold over the province and allow the uninterrupted plunder of natural resources such as timber. It is a future the generals would wish upon other parts of resource-rich Indonesia-for example, restive Papua province-and one that...