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...KILLED. LOTHAR HEINRICH ALBERT, 54, a German tourist; by government troops; in Aceh province, Indonesia. Albert and his wife, Elizabeth Engel, arrived in Aceh for a cycling tour in late April, before hostilities between the military and separatist rebels resumed. The army says soldiers shot at the couple's campsite thinking they were guerrilla fighters. Engel was hit in the knee, and is in stable condition. The military has come under fire for being trigger-happy and killing noncombatants...
...anxious to maintain good relations with its war-on-terror allies to do anything but urge the T.N.I. to make its soldiers' actions more transparent, a plea the T.N.I. notes and then ignores-as the U.S. allows it to do. If anything does disrupt U.S.-Indonesia relations, it will not be Acehnese blood but that of two American teachers murdered in Papua last August, possibly by the military...
...this includes the replacement of the province's 114 subdistrict chiefs with retired soldiers, which would give the military a stranglehold over the province and allow the uninterrupted plunder of natural resources such as timber. It is a future the generals would wish upon other parts of resource-rich Indonesia-for example, restive Papua province-and one that appears inevitable considering the lack of protest or even debate over their blood-soaked Aceh adventure...