Word: banda
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...midnight at the top ten karaoke bar in Banda Aceh, and the portly drunkard everyone respectfully calls "Commander" is on the mike. "Indonesia," he wails between gulps of Guinness. "You are the red of my blood, the white of my bone." His bleary rendition wins huge applause from the bar's other customers, all Indonesian soldiers deployed in the capital of war-torn Aceh province. "I love that song," slurs the Commander, who is actually an army major. "It makes me feel so patriotic...
...treatment of Malays in the area. In Java, grown men fight tears when they recall the day milk for their children became too expensive. In Aceh, the perception that the people are being ripped off leads to bloodshed. There's a constant military patrol even in the provincial capital Banda Aceh, a supposedly peaceful enclave in a region defined not by its wonderful coffee or the sparkling blue water off the northern coast - almost shocking after the prevailing brown of what passes for harbors and rivers elsewhere - but by atrocities that have piled up over two decades of guerrilla warfare...
...former student Muhammad Nazar, who was tried for sedition because of the rallies and given a 10-month jail sentence last month. "The violence in Aceh is increasing as part of a military and police effort to undermine the negotiating process," says Nazar, whose current residence is the Banda Aceh central jail. "This is not going to solve the conflict." Obviously, Jakarta didn't want to hold the kind of referendum that lost it East Timor. Instead, it seems to have chosen Plan...
...situation of total war," says Tengku Darwesh, one of GAM's 17 local commanders. "As in any guerrilla conflict, we have to choose our time and place to fight." The overwhelming bulk of the movement in Aceh is led by Abdullah Syafi, a 45-year-old graduate of a Banda Aceh school of Islamic jurisprudence. Syafi recognizes the leadership-in-exile of aged GAM-founder di Tiro and his deputies. But there is also a splinter group known as the Government Council of the Free Aceh Movement, or MP-GAM in its Indonesian acronym. Led from Europe by Husaini Hasan...
Silence and the ignorance it promotes have fed the AIDS epidemic in Africa perhaps more than any other factors. In Malawi, where until the end of dictator Hastings Banda's rule in 1994 women were barred from wearing short skirts and men could be jailed for having long hair, public discussion of AIDS was forbidden. According to the government, AIDS didn't exist inside Malawi. Catherine Phiri, 38, knew otherwise. She tested positive in 1990, after her husband had died of the disease. Forced to quit her job as a nurse when colleagues began to gossip, she sought refuge with...