Word: separatists
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...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...
There were two explosions, and they were close enough to send the women of Simpang Keramat village in northern Aceh scurrying for cover with their infants. Ironically, the women had been describing to me how the Dec. 9 cease-fire between the Indonesian armed forces and Acehnese separatist rebels had brought five months of unprecedented calm to Simpang Keramat, which lies in one of six "peace zones" established in Aceh province after that agreement. For Mariani, a 35-year-old schoolteacher and mother of three, this had enabled her to travel safely to the hospital in the nearby town...
...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...
...minister of Jammu and Kashmir state, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed dismantled the feared special forces responsible for most of the abuses. In Srinagar, Kashmir's ancient lakeside city, some Muslim elders are encouraged by the words of peace emanating from New Delhi and Islamabad. Abdul Ghani Bhat, chairman of the separatist All Parties Hurriyat Conference, an alliance of 26 Kashmiri separatist parties and groups, said he was "optimistic" about the future. "The boys with guns will have to fall in line," said Bhat. "They will have to listen to reason." For now, the spectacle of India and Pakistan facing...