Word: gam
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...ExxonMobil's Cluster IV gas field. He says he was dragged, kicking and screaming, past men wearing white uniforms and ExxonMobil hard hats?the company's private security guards. He doesn't know why he was tortured and claims to have no opinion about the Free Aceh Movement (gam), a rebel army fighting for independence from Indonesia. He doesn't want any money from ExxonMobil. But he doesn't have much good to say about the company either. "I hate Exxon," he says, "they have no heart...
...Today, residents of the one-ox towns immediately bordering ExxonMobil's facilities in Aceh seem ready to storm the ramparts. Many of these towns have become breeding grounds for the rebel movement and, in some, the gam's fighters can be seen resting, rusted rifles and rocket launchers strapped over their shoulders. They are fighting the Indonesian military. But they are also fighting ExxonMobil. Late last year, the rebels began targeting the company's employees and property, forcing it in March to suspend its operations. The townspeople say it is good the rebels are attacking ExxonMobil. In some places, people...
...gam, which is no model of military discipline itself, used stories like Afrina's to justify its attacks on civilians who work for ExxonMobil. Last December, a company plane was hit by ground fire as it approached a landing strip in Lhokseumawe. From Feb. 24 to March 3, mines blew up under three buses carrying ExxonMobil's employees. When mortars landed on a facility called Point A later in March, the company's security advisers decided things had become too dangerous. The firm shuttered its operations and evacuated Bukit Indah, leaving it in the hands of the now beefed...
...north Aceh were formally scrapped. Both the Indonesian army and Brimob have been reinforced, pushing up the security forces' overall strength in Aceh to 37,000. The military is gearing up for what it has termed "limited operations," which Acehnese fear will be an all-out assault on GAM's military and political infrastructure, aimed at driving it back into the province's spine of jungled hills. The French aid organization MEdecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), not known for faintheartedness, pulled out of Aceh earlier this month. Says the local head of another foreign aid agency: "I doubt...
...GAM, which has several hundred full-time soldiers and perhaps 2,000-3,000 firearms, is small and vulnerable. "Obviously we can't face TNI (the army) in a 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...