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...enough. He sent two guards to the man to insist that he drop the matter. Uday had another demand: that the ex-governor bring his daughter and her 12-year-old sister to his next party. "Your daughters will be my girlfriends, or I'll wipe you off the face of the earth." The man complied, surrendering both girls...
...devilish nerve, as well as our feelings of foreboding on his behalf. As we follow him deeper and deeper into his life of crime, we sense that, smart and daring though he is, he will not be able to resist his own heedlessness, those violent flashes of temper that wipe all clever calculations out of his brain...
...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 roads...
...Acehnese to view their future with increasing pessimism. With international monitors gone and human-rights activists too scared to do fieldwork, fresh atrocities are likely to go unreported. I asked an elderly rice farmer near Lhokseumawe for his view of Indonesia's military strategy in the province. "To wipe out all Acehnese people," he replied simply. Meanwhile, bereaved villagers in Peusangan are developing strategies of their own to deal with the unfolding horror. Clutching her prayer book, Ramla, the grieving mother of 18-year-old Khairurrazi, explained: "We pray, the whole family together. We pray until we weep...
...TIME: So you intend to wipe out GAM? RYAMIZARD: It will be impossible for us to get rid of them 100%. But I'm not saying just kill them. Many have surrendered, and they have not been killed. If they are armed, and resist and fire, they will be killed. Weapons have to be faced with weapons. Soldiers everywhere do the same thing. What people don't understand is that the more we leave them alone, the more victims there are, not the other way around. More people killed, more police killed, more soldiers killed. What country allows this...