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Human
Rights Watch today condemned the murder of Papuan
independence leader Theys Eluay and called for a high-level
investigation into his death. |
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TAPOL calls for all non-organic
Indonesian troops to be withdrawn from Acheh, paving the way for
demilitarisation so as to allow the conflict to be resolved
by peaceful means. War has been raging in Acheh for years. |
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UN
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
19 Oct 2001- Covers: NATURAL
DISASTERS, ACEH (Nanggroe Acheh Darussalam), CENTRAL SULAWESI,
IRIAN JAYA, MALUKU, NORTH MALUKU, SOUTHEAST SULAWESI - BUTON,
WEST TIMOR and OTHER |
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IFA Calls Achenese not to be
Influenced by Jakarta's Anti American.
IFA, while always supporting totally the rights of
every person to express their opinions and feelings freely
in a democratic and peaceful way, abhors doing so with
violence and unruliness and in violation of the accepted
international behavior. |
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Achenese leaders urged Indonesian
President Megawati Sukarnoputri during their weekend meeting
to end the anti-rebel military campaign launched
by her predecessor |
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SIRA and Acheh students reject Mega:
Expressing their pessimism about a
possible resolution to the Acheh problem, the
Jakarta-based Achenese Student and Youth Association opposed
on Thursday President Megawati Soekarnoputri's visit to the
strife-torn province, while the Acheh Referendum Information
Center (SIRA) in Banda Acheh said that the visit would not
make any difference. |
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SIRA' s
Supplementary Report on Julok Massacre.
They found
military boot marks and newly chopped down shrubs; then they
found a heap of newly dug earth. Some of them started
digging while others continue the search and found 3 more
fresh earth heaps. All four holes contained corpses with
torture marks such as stabbing, slicing, beating with blunt
objects and strangling with ropes. |
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The IFA draws
attention to the actions of the ROI armed forces on the
morning of 9 August 2001. According to eye witness accounts
as reported by SIRA (the respected Acheh Referendum
Information Centre, whose chairman, Muhammad Nazar has been
jailed for holding a peaceful demonstration in support of a
referendum demand), military forces entered the barracks of
a plantation area in East Acheh, ordered workers outside,
forced them to hand over money then opened fire. |
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This is the most
detailed and comprehensive account of the Julok massacre
seen by TAPOL. While
not being able to endorse the contents, TAPOL fully supports
the call by SIRA for an independent investigation into the
massacre and for measures to be taken to safeguard the lives
of the wounded, the survivors and others in the area who are
now at risk. |
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Ninja: Refugee
and massacre in Gayo:
Javanese
from Pondok Baru came to tell their families to go see the
four men at Pepedang. This is a spot known as a place
where where corpses of murdered Gayos and Achenese are
dumped. Many corpses, including those of children have been
found there.' |
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An
E-Classic Talk: A Javanese-Achenese
convesation with Ted Lyng of the US Embassy in Jakarta on
Acheh self-determination |
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The international community will be
outraged if there is a reversion to human rights
abuses of the kind that were seen in East Timor in the
past," Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer told
reporters. |
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Police shot dead
three students and wounded many |
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Five men
suspected of being
being members of the Free Acheh Movement (GAM) were shot dead
during a clash with soldiers in Central Acheh on Saturday,
Deputy Military Commander Colonel Jali Yusuf said. |
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The GAM deputy
commander in North Acheh, Sofyan Daud, said the two loggers were burned to
death by Indonesian soldiers who had arrested them on
Saturday on suspicion they were rebels. |
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At least nine people were killed
in the Indonesian province of Acheh as government forces
stepped up operations to hunt down separatist rebels,
residents and rebels said Monday. |
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Ilham accused
the Indonesian
military of setting up and supporting local paramilitary
military groups that "are often terrorizing the population." |
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 Syafiie warns
ExxonMobil. Acheh is an
independent kingdom. If ExxonMobil wants to resume
operations, they should negotiate with The Kingdom of Acheh. |
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GAM TAKES A
LEAD; Acheh rebels taking over government
functions. Theoretically,
both Jakarta and the GAM administrations co-exist at areas
known as the rebel breeding grounds. But in practice, most
of the government offices in these areas are no longer
functioning. |
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The government
will suffer for their decision,' ...'The more troops they send
to Acheh, the more they will go back in bodybags. We cannot
let them kill our people. |
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The commander in chief of TNI,
the Indonesian armed forces, announced today that he had
issued Decree 1/IV/2001 on 14 April 2001 to set up a special
military command for the purpose of dealing
with/obliterating the armed separatist movement in Acheh. |
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In another
village in East Acheh, residents said police and
soldiers shot dead three civilians and critically wounded
two others Tuesday during a search which followed an ambush
on a patrol by suspected Free Acheh Movement (GAM) rebels. |
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Indonesia Troops "Fired Blindly" At
Acheh Children-Witness — "They fired blindly,"
said a witness who asked not to be named for fear of
reprisal. |
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When the people of East Timor decided
20 months ago to secede from Indonesia, the
backlash was swift and horrendous. The Indonesian military,
using local militia groups, spearheaded a three-week rampage
of pillage and slaughter. |
