ACEH
Who’s Fishing in Troubled Waters?

Violence reappears in Aceh in anticipation of general elections. It is the first test of the peace accord.

March 3, 2009

BY dusk, Mustafa Kamal ate a meal wrapped in banana leaves and drank warm tea bought by Nurdin, a neighbor. It was a shock to Nurdin when he saw Mustafa, 39, already lifeless. In fact, only for a while did Nurdin leave him for prayers in a mosque.

According to Nurdin, Mustafa just claimed he was dizzy and then emotionally said he would seek the three people who had beaten him in the afternoon. “But I forbade him,” Nurdin told Tempo on Saturd

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