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...Yudhoyono's supporters insist the President-elect can be firm when necessary, citing the government's swift arrest and prosecution of the Bali-bombing gang, which happened on Yudhoyono's watch as security czar. "He is persuasive, not authoritative," says Sudi Silalahi, a retired three-star general and one of Yudhoyono's key advisers. Silalahi points to the success Yudhoyono had in stopping religious fighting in areas such as Poso and Maluku through lengthy negotiations and peace agreements. "He can use both methods," concurs adviser Rachmat, who is widely tipped for a senior Cabinet position. "If the road is straight...
...military has begun what promises to be a long, gory campaign. It aims to winnow out rebels by forcibly emptying villages and herding people into internment camps. Armed men who remain in the villages will be told to shed their weapons and come out. Those who remain, says General Sudi Silalahi, an adviser to the National Security Minister, will be subject to "sweepings." In practice, that means they will probably be shot. Meanwhile, the outmuscled rebels can be expected to draw out the fighting to provoke more atrocities, hoping to embarrass Jakarta into withdrawing its troops. But a continuing conflict...
...internment camps, a strategy invented by the British during the Boer War at the turn of the last century but now used only by military dictatorships, such as Burma. "The village will be surrounded and given a warning so women, children and the elderly can leave first," explains General Sudi Silalhi, chief adviser to Indonesia's chief security minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. "Then they will give another warning to those with arms to drop their weapons and come out. Then, if there are still some left in the village, we will go into the homes and conduct sweepings." This means...
...minds. "I don't think (the military) has any new strategy at all," he says. "They always go back to force, force and more force." So what will the t.n.i. regard as proof that it has secured victory in Aceh? The extermination of GAM? Not at all, insists General Sudi. If GAM rebels accept that Aceh is a part of Indonesia, then "we won't kill them all," he says. And if victory isn't secured before martial law expires six months from now? Then, says Sudi, "we'll just renew it"?as many times as it takes...
...Khartoum. SOMALIA Militia Battles At least 28 people were killed and more than 25 injured in fighting between rival militias in Mogadishu's residential Medina district. Many of those who died were civilians. Thousands fled their homes after indiscriminate gunfire and shelling broke out between the forces of Muse Sudi Yalahow, one of the former capital's most powerful militia leaders, and his former ally Omar Mohammed Filish. Somalia has had no effective administration since 1991. Afghanistan New Army Afghanistan began building a national army as its first battalion of soldiers graduated from a U.S. special-forces training program...