Going Nowhere...Slow

The government has extended civil emergency in Aceh. This is not the right step towards an end to the conflict there.

November 23, 2004

ON Aceh, what is needed is an intercession, not a continuation of the sequences of violence.

We all know that there has been an unchanging ritual for the past half century. Their names and intensity vary: military operations, martial law and civil emergency. But there is one constant with all of those cases: the government used the barrel of a gun as its instrument of policy. Six different governments have run this nation, yet all have le

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