SOFYAN Dawood is only one out of scores of former Free Aceh Movement (GAM) regional commanders that appeared on the stage with Irwandi Yusuf and Muhammad Nazar during a campaign rally on December 6. But only Sofyan was prepared to make a promise in front of the more than 1,000 people that had packed the Padang Blang Square in central Banda Aceh on that late Sunday afternoon.

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