Life is cheap in the Veranda of Mecca, as Indonesians call Aceh, the nation’s troubled westernmost region. And time and time again, the almost routine killings there pose more questions than they solve. The slaying of Dayan Dawood, rector of Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh, was no exception. He was shot dead on September 6, in the late afternoon as he was in a car traveling down Jalan Teuku Nyak Arif in the city. By late last week, pol...