Word: sudarsono
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...into the mountains, and conducted a brutal campaign against the separatists' civilian supporters. According to New York City-based Human Rights Watch, the military has killed hundreds of ordinary Acehnese?a charge the government denies. "If anyone is shot, it's because he is G.A.M.," says Colonel Ditya Sudarsono, spokesman for the martial-law administrator in Aceh. The military itself boasts that the campaign against the rebels has been a major success, claiming that more than 2,000 G.A.M. members have been killed and another 3,000 captured...
...Jakarta threw out a defamation suit brought by Suharto against TIME for a May 1999 article claiming that the President and his family had acquired some $15 billion during his rule. (Suharto has appealed.) Wahid cites the suit as proof of the dictator's hidden wealth. Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono has accused cronies of Suharto's of inciting bloody riots to derail further investigations. Yet in the meantime, Wahid has been secretly negotiating with Suharto to return some money--for a presidential pardon...
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