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...Indonesia: Young Blood
...t.n.i. claimed the dead were GAM suspects killed during a shoot-out. The terrified villagers told me a very different story. I arrived in the area just as a company of high-spirited soldiers was leaving. "You should have come earlier," grinned a burly soldier wearing the insignia of Indonesia's notoriously vicious Kopassus special forces. "You missed all the action...
...British during the Boer War at the turn of the last century but now used only by military dictatorships, such as Burma. "The village will be surrounded and given a warning so women, children and the elderly can leave first," explains General Sudi Silalhi, chief adviser to Indonesia's chief security minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. "Then they will give another warning to those with arms to drop their weapons and come out. Then, if there are still some left in the village, we will go into the homes and conduct sweepings." This means anyone left in the villages is liable...
...says. "They always go back to force, force and more force." So what will the t.n.i. regard as proof that it has secured victory in Aceh? The extermination of GAM? Not at all, insists General Sudi. If GAM rebels accept that Aceh is a part of Indonesia, then "we won't kill them all," he says. And if victory isn't secured before martial law expires six months from now? Then, says Sudi, "we'll just renew it"?as many times as it takes...
...January due to overcrowding in the country's prisons. The Justice Ministry said that there are new charges against the suspects related to the 1994 atrocities, in which 800,000 Rwandans died. More than 100,000 suspects are in jail awaiting trial on genocide charges. NOT SAYING MUCH INDONESIA Negotiations between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Jakarta government got off to a shaky start when the separatists threatened to stall the meeting if their delegates - five men arrested for trying to leave the country without notifying authorities - were not released by police. The meetings, which are taking place...