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...Even some Indonesian soldiers admit that G.A.M. is still a serious threat. Nasrudin, a 31-year-old marine captain who is Acehnese, is the military administrator for the region around Juli, a village in Biruen, one of the province's most dangerous battlegrounds. He acknowledges that the rebels in his area have proved tough to defeat: "We've managed to push them into the mountains temporarily, but they're still out there. You take the military away, and the whole place would be fully back in their control in an hour." Meanwhile, the impact of the past year is eerily...
...years have not diminished Jakarta's apparent conviction that the Aceh issue calls for a military solution, not a political one. Nor, after a five-month pause, have the rebels lost their taste for battle. Invited by Libyan-trained GAM commander Darwis Jeunib to a remote village in Biruen district in the north, I see a few dozen of some 1,000 soldiers he claims to lead. Though their AK-47s, strung with Acehnese flags, are antiques, their uniforms and army boots are box-fresh, making them better equipped than the motley GAM troops I have seen on previous visits...
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