SUSPICION quickly spread when over 3,000 soldiers from various countries arrived in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam after the region was hit by a tsunami at the end of 2004. Some circles in Indonesia charged that there was a secret mission behind the humanitarian action carried out by the foreign troops. On top of that, the conflict with the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) had not ended at the time of the tragedy which took 200,000 lives.

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