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...troubled peace that has prevailed in Indonesia's bloody Aceh province for the past four months is on the verge of unraveling. Negotiations between the separatist Free Aceh Movement (known by its Indonesian acronym GAM) and the Indonesian government broke down last week over trivial scheduling and venue changes. Meanwhile, more than 25,000 Indonesian troops in Aceh went on high alert, and the country's Navy chief warned that 14 warships could soon arrive off Aceh's coast...
...rebels, for their part, accuse Indonesia's military of sponsoring fresh violence - which has killed nearly 50 people in the past month - to scuttle negotiations and crush the uprising for good. Two offices for international monitors stationed in the country were attacked in April. Witnesses claim a mob of about 500 Javanese who set fire to the Joint Security Committee office in Langsa arrived in army trucks. ?We believe the differences between the two sides are still not that great,? says Steve Daly, a Henry Dunant Centre spokesman. ?Nobody's packing up yet.? That kind of optimism is hard...
...sides profit through smuggling, extortion, illegal logging and the sale of marijuana. Peace would threaten cash flow. "Both GAM and the government are more interested in saving face than saving the lives of the Acehnese people," says Ghazali Abbas Adan, an Acehnese representative to the People's Consultative Assembly, Indonesia's highest legislative body...
This will be the final battle." so predicts a civilian member of the Acehnese negotiating team that tried for months to reach an agreement that would prevent all-out warfare in Indonesia's westernmost province. He doesn't want his name published because he fears reprisals against his family, particularly because he believes that there is virtually no chance the two sides?the Indonesian military and the separatist guerrillas of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM)?can reach a compromise to prevent renewed fighting. Indonesian troops are already flooding into Aceh. Ultimately, some 50,000 are expected in the province, poised...
...Indonesia: Boiling Point in Aceh