After Abu Ghraib
Human Rights Watch places the torture of GAM detainees under the spotlight.
October 5, 2004
FORTY-two-year old Sayed Mustafa Usab is thick-set and yellow-skinned. He was last employed as a cargo hand at Tanjung Priok port in North Jakarta. He was not a porter, though. In 1989 he completed his military training in Libya. Undoubtedly, he is an important person in the secessionist Free Aceh Movement (GAM). He assumed a special mission as a liaison between GAM leaders in Sweden and GAM guerrillas in Aceh.
Sayed claimed he was once na
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