Peace Through the Perimeter?

The Indonesian Military (TNI) has surrounded one of GAM's base camps—to force them to make peace or to subdue them?

November 19, 2002

NURHAYATI is restless. For the past three weeks, her village has been packed with fully armed troops wearing camouflage fatigues. TNI is surrounding members of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), who are trapped in the marshes of Cot Trieng Village, Muara Dua District, North Aceh. The 40-year-old woman is worried that an armed incursion will actually take place. While holding on to her child, she said that she had fled to a neighboring village when

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