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Khairurrazi was among the first casualties of a massive military campaign launched last week by the Indonesian military to crush the separatist Free Aceh Movement after the government's peace talks with the rebels collapsed. The fiercely nationalistic Acehnese have long resented what they consider Indonesia's illegitimate occupation. In 27 years of fighting between the military and the separatists, some 12,000 people have lost their lives. The military claimed the Peusangan villagers were killed during a shoot-out. But witnesses tell TIME that some of the eight males, from 11 to 20 years old, were shot...
...still a risk of further terrorist attacks in the kingdom. Violence Resumes SPAIN Two policemen died and a third was critically injured when a bomb exploded under their car in the small town of Sanguesa in Navarra province, which borders the northern Basque region. Authorities blamed the Basque separatist group ETA for the attack, which came days after municipal elections from which the separatist party Batasuna was barred on the grounds it was linked to ETA. French to the Rescue DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO The U.N. authorized a French-led peacekeeping force to go to the eastern Ituri region, where...
...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, sickly youth, had expected an illness to kill him. Instead, he was beaten and bayoneted, then shot in the head. "Half his skull...
...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 in Tokyo, may be the last chance to salvage a peace agreement brokered last December between the two sides. Separatist...
...organization, Indonesian officials and representatives of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) turned up in Tokyo for a last-ditch attempt to head off renewed conflict. But the chances of the two sides reaching a compromise are minuscule. Jakarta is promising only a measure of autonomy, and insists that the separatist group first unconditionally disarm. GAM, which insists on independence for Aceh, will almost certainly refuse to do this in the face of one of the largest military buildups in Indonesian history. The army's objective this time around appears to be nothing less than GAM's eradication. "We will fight...