Anxiety in Alby

Three top GAM figures arrested by the Swedish government have been released for the time being. Will this be the end of the separatist movement?

June 22, 2004

A ROOM in the fifth floor apartment in Alby, Stockholm, Sweden, was already without its police guard. The occupant, President of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), Teuku Hasan Muhammad di Tiro, 79, under house arrest since last Tuesday, had been released for the time being. In his spotless apartment he is now free to reflect, to look out of the balcony, or just to telephone close friends without being under the suspicious gaze of a blonde police o

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