Peace Under Attack

Masses attacked the peace mediators office in Central Aceh. A pure reaction to GAMs extortions or was it engineered by the Indonesian Military?

March 11, 2003

TAKENGON, a quiet, cool town in the mountainous area of Central Aceh, all of a sudden became turbulent last Monday. It was still 8:30 in the morning, but a convoy of trucks, pickups, minibuses and motorcycles were taking 500 demonstrators from the Bukit district to the Joint Security Committee office at Buntul Kuku. An hour later, thousands of people from the Bandar district joined them. They yelled: Disband the JSC and The JSC is only supporting

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