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...This ominous resurgence in military strength leads the Acehnese to view their future with increasing pessimism. With international monitors gone and human-rights activists too scared to do fieldwork, fresh atrocities are likely to go unreported. I asked an elderly rice farmer near Lhokseumawe for his view of Indonesia's military strategy in the province. "To wipe out all Acehnese people," he replied simply. Meanwhile, bereaved villagers in Peusangan are developing strategies of their own to deal with the unfolding horror. Clutching her prayer book, Ramla, the grieving mother of 18-year-old Khairurrazi, explained: "We pray, the whole family...
...patient or a politician, or even to a doctor or a nurse. Instead, the most vivid expression of this outbreak's impact can be found on an eight-year-old girl, Tang Chia-ru, who wears her hair in pigtails and, when given the choice, prefers noodles to rice. Last Friday, she stood behind her father fidgeting with her face mask and staring at the swarm of photographers who surrounded her and at the smiling face of her mother who looked down from a picture frame hanging in a Taipei funeral parlor. Her mother was nurse Chen Ching-chiu...
...envoy would be allowed back into Burma for four days beginning June 6. Several analysts said the generals may have relented because of hints the European Union and the U.S. were considering broadening economic sanctions against the regime. Burma's banking system is already near collapse, prices for rice and other essentials are spiraling higher and government harassment of the opposition is on the increase. But as a diplomat in Rangoon conceded, the generals have so little contact with outsiders that "none of us really know the reasons behind the decisions." Few in Rangoon expect, however, that Razali's visit...
...Caught in the cross fire are ordinary Acehnese. At Simpang Keramat, most shops are boarded up and abandoned, and women are preparing bags of rice and other supplies for their flight. Most young men have already left: they are often regarded as potential GAM recruits by the Indonesian military and therefore might become targets themselves. "Don't Display Your Weapons," exhorts a sign outside the village. Somebody has blanked...
...reason to doubt this grim prediction. The Indonesian government itself estimates that up to 200,000 Acehnese could be displaced by war, and has avowedly allocated $48 million to help them. The army promises that the boats disgorging soldiers and ammunition on Aceh's shores will also carry rice and other vital supplies for civilians. "I'll believe it when I see it," says one 45-year-old village leader, who is too afraid to give his name. We meet in the ramshackle sports hall of Lhokseumawe Polytechnic, where about a thousand refugees (700 of them children) from two villages...