After the Guns Fall Silent

Last years Helsinki Accord has been able to stop the fighting in Aceh. The hard work now is to build the peace.

August 22, 2006

IT is easy to start a war, but oh, the difficulty of stopping one. This old saying could not be truer in the case of Aceh. Nearly four decades ago, over nothing more than a trifle, Hasan Tiro and dozens of his followers retreated into the jungle and took up arms. But the governments reaction in trying to suppress them militarily turned Aceh into a war zone for three decades and left hundreds dead, tens of thousands injured, and forced hundreds of

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