| 'In the neighbouring district of Bireuen five bodies, all with gunshot wounds, were found in four separate locations in Peusangan and Jeunieb on Tuesday.'
'Victims were civilians who had been arrested by troops during a search for rebel bases.' —— Teungku Darwin Djeunieb, Bireuen district GAM commander . |
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 retired district military chief, Marzuki Ahmad, was shot dead by two gunmen at Lhoknga south of the provincial capital of Banda Acheh on Tuesday, said military spokesman Captain Doril Chan.
Another military spokesman, Major Zaenal Muttaqin, said troops shot dead two suspected rebels of the Free Acheh Movement (GAM) in a clash at Teunom in
West Acheh the same day.
A grenade thrown by suspected rebels towards a police post at Krueng Geukeuh in North Acheh on Tuesday injured four passers-by, he added.
Muttaqin said villagers at Rantau in East Acheh on Tuesday found the body of a man with his throat slashed.
Four other bodies, all with gunshot wounds, were found at Syamtalira Bayu in North Acheh on Tuesday, a local humanitarian activist said.
In the neighbouring district of Bireuen five bodies, all with gunshot wounds, were found in four separate locations in Peusangan and Jeunieb on Tuesday, another activist said.
The Bireuen district GAM commander, Teungku Darwin Djeunieb, said the victims were civilians who had been arrested by troops during a search for rebel bases.
Djeunib said troops conducting a similar sweep at Jeumpa shot dead two other civilians.
More than 1,700 people, mostly civilians, died last year.
Separatist unrest in Acheh on the tip of Sumatra island has been fuelled by years of human rights abuses by the military and by the central government's draining of the region's rich oil and gas resources.
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