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...soldiers wantonly killing civilians in Aceh? Last week, TIME's Jason Tedjasukmana put that and other searching questions about the Indonesian military's offensive to army chief General Ryamizard Ryacudu, 53, at his home in South Jakarta. Here are excerpts...
...Even if those making noises (about independence) number up to a million, this is a country of more than 220 million people. Our job is to safeguard unity. Our job is to destroy GAM's military capability. Issues of justice, religion, autonomy, social welfare, education?those are not the Indonesian military's problems...
...Unlike Aceh, East Timor no longer suffers at the often brutal hands of the Indonesian military. But now, a year after winning its freedom, this tiny nation faces a slew of daunting challenges, from constructing a viable economy to repairing lives ravaged by more than 20 years of violence and misery. None have endured more than the former members of the guerrilla group Falintil, those most responsible for liberating East Timor. For two decades these defiant fighters clung to what President Xanana Gusmao, himself a former guerrilla leader, once called the "sacred ideal" of independence. Now that they have achieved...
...Even those with jobs struggle. Mario Baptista joined Falintil at age 13 along with his father. He killed an Indonesian soldier for the first time at 15, and prayed every day for the "miracle of independence." Now an F.D.T.L. officer, the 31-year-old tries to pay for the education of five young relatives out of a salary of $130 a month. Another soldier, who still uses his code name Mausae Lary, came home in 1999 after 24 years in the bush to find that his wife, assuming he was dead, had remarried. His relatives are disappointed in him: "They...
...ACQUITTED. BRIGADIER GENERAL TONO SURATMAN, 51, former commander of the Indonesian military in East Timor during the lead-up to a plebiscite on independence in 1999, of alleged human-rights violations; in Jakarta. Suratman was the 12th accused officer to be set free in a series of highly publicized trials...