Word: banda
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...grandfather is among the 60 or so in the pyre, is crazed with grief, one moment scooping water into cooking pots and throwing it on the flames, the next collapsing in uncontrollable sobs. They are collecting bodies from the normally green lawn in front of the old mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, now littered with a thick debris of dead snakes, chickens and humans--at just one collection point in the city, authorities have gathered 3,500 corpses. On the Andaman coast in Thailand, soldiers are using an ax and a spade to dig out the body of a woman...
...Mercy Corps Mercy Corps is working with local organizations in India and Sri Lanka to distribute provisions and has emergency teams in Padang and Banda Aceh...
...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...
...City for Indonesia nearly a decade ago to head what he calls the Sailing Fleet of Indonesia, a loose association of traditional sailing-craft aficionados who ply the archipelago's waters for both pleasure and business. Engel, staring out at the moonlight reflecting off the calm waters of the Banda Sea, paused and took a pull from his cigarette before continuing to speak. "You could get yourself a boat and go to one of these little islands with your family and just set up shop. No one would ever find...
...sure, not all Acehnese hate the TNI. At the village of Sarah Tebe, near Peureulak, southeast of Banda Aceh, the people have welcomed them. Some 400 families used to live here but more than half moved away in the past 18 months as the conflict worsened. Recent clashes between soldiers and rebels have sent villagers fleeing in terror and, only days before, the corpses of two unknown men?slit from belly to throat and eviscerated?were fished from the nearby Kuala Bayan River. The military is now building a small post at Sarah Tebe. "I'm very glad...