Word: peusangan
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...body in a white cotton shroud, then taken the remaining material to his mother. "Keep this safe for me," he told her. "I'll need it soon." Sure enough, 17 days later, Khairurrazi's corpse was lowered into a muddy trench in a village cemetery in Peusangan, an area near Bireun in northern Aceh that has been ravaged by conflict since the Indonesian military last week launched its massive campaign to crush the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM). As the gravediggers maneuvered Khairurrazi's body onto its side to face Mecca, blood seeped through his shroud. Khairurrazi, always a thin...
...villagers in the Peusangan area, death came at dawn. Indonesian soldiers swept in from all directions, announcing their arrival with bursts of semiautomatic gunfire. Most villagers cowered in their houses. But seven young men and boys were caught in the open. A 55-year-old woman who witnessed the carnage said she saw about 15 soldiers prodding the seven villagers into line. The soldiers, she said, shot four of the men from a distance of about five meters; the remaining three began to run and were mowed down by bullets...