'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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ONE EXODUS INCIDENT to North Acheh, Nindja Director Natsuko
Saeki said that ethnic Gayos and Achenese from Amor, Wirsap
and Simpur villages of the Syiah Utama Sub-District, took
five days trekking through the jungle to reach Matangkuli in
North Acheh.
"Most of these
villagers are coffee planters", she said. "It
started with lacking daily necessities as traders are afraid
to go to South Acheh after several trucks have been burnt by
unknown gangs. Four villagers from Amor went to a nearby
Javanese village of Pondok Baru to sell their coffee and
purchase foodstuff. They never returned. A few days later a
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.
The families became
frightened and decided to flee. But before going, they held
a meeting with adjacent villagers of Wirsap and Simpur.
Finally all from these 3 villages decided to leave on
24.06.2001 at 6.00 pm.
It took them 5 days
trekking through the deep jungle to reach Paya Bakong
village in Matangkuli, North Acheh. In the group there were 2
women who had just given birth a few days earlier and one
who gave birth just a day after arriving at Paya Bakong. The
ages of children range between 7 to 9, while the adults in
their thirties. Altogether there were 233 persons from 108
families and are now sheltered in a Mosque that is not to
far away from military posts, a fact that traumatises them
even further", said Ms.
Saeki.
Another reason for fleeing, accordiang to these villagers,
is that ethnic Javanese from the Pondok Baru, Blang Pulo,
Pulau Sari, Blang Jorong and Sidodadi villages have been
given facilities by the military in order to search for
Achenese and Gayos suspected of having joined GAM.
The condition of the refugees, accordiang to Natsuko, is
very bad. "They are in dire need of medical care
and clothing, food supply and other daily necessities as
they have left their villages with only the clothes on their
backs", Natsuko Saeki concluded.
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EAST
ACHEH
14 year old refugee
shot by Indon soldier
According to the People's Crisis Center of Acheh, a patrol of
the Indonesian security forces entered the IDP's camp of
Alue Ie Mirah, Kutamakmur Sub-District, East Acheh yesterday
(22/07) in search of Free Acheh Movement
(GAM) guerillas. The soldiers were shooting into the air to
frighten the refugees when a bullet hit a 14 year old boy,
Amiruddin bin Itam, in the buttock. He was rushed to the
local village clinic.
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