Aceh Past and Present: A Bloody, Smoke _shrouded History

August 19, 2003

Coen Holtzappel
Anthropologist from the University of Amsterdam, Holland.
Researcher into the history of village development in the colonial era.

 

AFTER negotiations with the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) collapsed in April, the Indonesian Government decided to send a large-scale military expedition to Aceh. Simultaneously, it proclaimed civil emergency status (SOB) for the whole province. A number of shiploads of supplies and troops we

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