Dialog Amid the Danger

The GAM rebel movement says it is ready to talk and end the conflict in Aceh. But on the ground, the bloodletting continues.

June 18, 2002

Hasan Amin grimaces in pain. The 65-year-old resident of Geumpang, Pidie, claims he is a victim of trig-ger-happy government soldiers searching for members of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in his village. Hasan speaks spiritedly of what happened to him on June 6. "I was working on the farm when they shot me in the leg," he says.

Hasan, who is being treated for wounds at the Dr. Zainoel Abidin Hospital in Banda Aceh, is a forgotte

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