Word: gam
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That's not how the military views it. They see rapidly spreading support for the Free Aceh Movement, or GAM in its Indonesian acronym, and they're determined to stanch it with a brutal combination of collective punishment for towns and villages that back GAM, and preemptive terror toward everyone else. The result: wide swathes of Aceh have been brutalized since the beginning of the year. Along a 60-km stretch of the main north-south highway of east Aceh, hamlet after hamlet displays telltale scars: razed shops and markets and blackened, gutted houses. Villages still standing are eerily deserted...