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...Letter from East Timor...
...well orchestrated that one independent observer suggested the military might have been behind it. Curfews, either military-ordered or self-imposed, were in effect in every Acehnese town. Meanwhile, in Lhokseumawe in northern Aceh?the military's command center for its largest campaign since the 1975 invasion of East Timor?rifle-toting police in ski masks patrolled the streets on trail bikes. In the countryside, newly arrived marines were entrenched in the ruins of houses torched in previous failed campaigns to wipe out the rebels. Indonesian flags, raised by each Acehnese household by order of the military, fluttered over deserted...
...Sadly for the Acehnese, GAM's principal strategy will probably be to goad the military into committing the kind of brutal excesses it perpetrated in East Timor. "They know that they can't win, so they will keep trying to embarrass Jakarta and the army," says Neta Pane, author of the 2001 book GAM: Its History and Strength. He adds: "I was told by a top GAM official that they were going to use Viet Cong tactics, taking off their uniforms and mixing with the ordinary village people. And, of course, that feeds into the army's suspicions?they...
...Australia and New Zealand both issued fresh travel advisories last week for Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. The U.S. has not added any new warnings to its preexisting Southeast Asian advisories, but privately, U.S. officials say the intensity of "chatter," or communications among suspected terrorists in the region, has reached an alarming level. Indonesian police who have been tracing phone calls between suspected members of Jemaah Islamiah (JI)?the militant organization blamed for the Bali blasts?now believe planning for another attack is well under way. "There's a bunch of different streams that seem...
...policy making, which eroded significantly after the 1998 fall of Suharto. The military of late has already been reasserting itself as senior generals helped author a bill now before Parliament that, if passed, would permit them to act without presidential approval. Trials for the killing and pillaging in East Timor in 1999 and the 2002 murder of Papuan independence movement leader Theys Eluay failed to hold any top military brass accountable. (Army chief Ryamizard Ryacudu said the soldiers convicted of killing Theys deserved medals instead of the light prison sentences they received.) And with a presidential election next year, leading...