IT'S an irony Acehnese are watching every day in the Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, the province's new name. Many are not feeling safe precisely with the arrival of security forces said to protect them from the separatist rebels. Let alone welcoming government troops, even hearing they are coming to their villages frightens the residents to death.

Muhammad Juned Jalil, a resident of Pulokenari, a village in the district of Tiroturseb in Pidie, expr