Between Negotiations and Bullets

May 28, 2001

Aceh—a land on the northern tip of Sumatra—where peace talks take place one day and gunfire the next. The exchange of fire between the Indonesian military and the armed Free Aceh Movement and the resulting bloodshed has become part of everyday life there. Peace efforts, from the Humanitarian Pauses to Peace through Dialogs, have become routine and lost their force. The following table shows how the gunshots and ambushes contin

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