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May 16, 2001

Agence France Presse - May 16, 2001

Jakarta – Indonesian police have ransacked a Jakarta office of an Acehnese group linked to a fatal explosion here as the military picked up an…

Straits Times - May 16, 2001

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Last week's assassination of Aceh's former vice-governor illustrates just how dangerous taking a neutral stance is in…

May 14, 2001

Jakarta Post - May 14, 2001

Banda Aceh – Mobile Brigade Police (Brimob) personnel have been combing villages in Pidie regency, Aceh, over the past two days, in what is…

May 12, 2001

Straits Times - May 12, 2001

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Separatist rebels in Aceh declared a state of emergency yesterday, blaming the military offensive for the rising…

May 9, 2001

Agence France Presse - May 9, 2001

Banda Aceh – At least three people were killed and four others were wounded in the latest violence between separatist rebels and government forces…

May 6, 2001

Agence France Presse - May 6, 2001 (slightly abridged)

Banda Aceh – Continuing violence involving Indonesian government forces and separatist rebels of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) has left at least…

May 3, 2001

Jakarta Post - May 3, 2001

Jakarta – Sixty-seven people were killed in Aceh province between April 11 and April 29, Aceh's Human Rights Care Forum (Forum Peduli…

May 2, 2001

Jane's Defence Weekly - May 2, 2001

John Haseman, Bangkok – Indonesia is resuming extensive military operations in the troubled province of Aceh after almost a year of fruitless…

April 24, 2001

Straits Times - April 24, 2001

Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – Indonesian soldiers were airlifted to the restive province of Aceh yesterday to mark a new phase of a potentially long…

Agence France Presse - April 24, 2001

Banda Aceh – Independence fighters in the Indonesian state of Aceh pledged Sunday that they were ready for all-out resistance against new…

April 20, 2001

Agence France Presse - April 20, 2001 (abridged)

Banda Aceh – Violence in Indonesia's Aceh province has left at least five people dead since Thursday, hospital staff said.

The body of…

Jakarta Post - April 20, 2001 (slightly abridged)

Jakarta – A policeman and three separatist rebels were killed in the continuing violence in strife-torn Aceh, an official said on Thursday.

April 19, 2001

Jakarta Post - April 19, 2001

Jakarta – Efforts to settle problems in the strife-torn province of Aceh took a new turn when the government revealed on Wednesday a plan to…

April 15, 2001

Agence France Presse - April 15, 2001

Banda Aceh – At least six people were killed in renewed violence in the Indonesian province of Aceh at the weekend, police and residents said.…

April 12, 2001

Far Eastern Economic Review - April 12, 2001

John McBeth, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid and the Indonesian military are engaged in a renewed contest of wills, this time over the…

Jakarta Post - April 12, 2001

Jakarta – Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Purnomo Yusgiantoro said on Wednesday that soldiers currently stationed at the ExxonMobil gas…

Tempo - April 12, 2001

Jakarta – Students from the Front for Anti Violence (Fomapak) staged a rally in front of the US Embassy located on Jl. Merdeka Selatan…

April 11, 2001

Green Left Weekly - April 11, 2001

Pip Hinman – The Indonesian government's "limited" military operation, currently underway, is not just against the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), but…

April 9, 2001

Jakarta Post - April 9, 2001

Banda Aceh – Land transportation from Banda Aceh capital of Aceh province to Meulaboh in West Aceh has been interrupted over the last three days…

Newsweek - April 9, 2001

Ron Moreau – Soldiers dressed in combat fatigues and black hoods would normally inspire fear in an Acehnese village. But not these commandos. As…

Straits Times - April 9, 2001

Enrique Soriano – The bleak panorama that unfolds on the drive from Lhokseumawe, the main town in North Aceh, to Medan is punctuated only by the…

April 5, 2001

Agence France Presse - April 5, 2001 (abridged)

Jakarta – The government must shoulder its share of the blame for any consequences of a military deployment in restive Aceh province,…

Agence France Presse - April 5, 2001

Jakarta – At least four people have been killed in the latest violence in Aceh, a report said Thursday, a day after the latest peace initiative in…

April 3, 2001

Sydney Morning Herald - April 3, 2001

Jacqueline M. Koch in Banda Aceh and Lindsay Murdoch in Jakarta – Soldiers patrol villages, their high-powered weapons ready to fire. Tanks rumble…

Straits Times - April 3, 2001

Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – Aceh could split from Indonesia within a year if the Indonesian armed forces (TNI) does not step up operations to crush…

April 2, 2001

Straits Times - April 2, 2001

Devi Asmarani, Aceh – A simple bus trip at night can turn deadly in this violence-wracked province, where residents live in constant fear of being…

Indonesian Observer - April 2, 2001

Jakarta – The Information Center for Aceh Referendum (SIRA) will soon file lawsuit against the Indonesian Police Chief General Surojo Bimantoro…

March 30, 2001

Reuters - March 30, 2001

Jakarta – Two human rights activists and their driver were shot dead in Aceh in an attack that suggests humanitarian workers were being targeted…

Agence France Presse - March 30, 2001

Jakarta – The US embassy here on Friday deplored the "senseless" and "brutal" murder of three Indonesians involved in the peace process in…

Jakarta Post - March 30, 2001

Jakarta – The guilty verdict handed down to Aceh Referendum Information Center (SIRA) chief Muhammad Nazar drew condemnation on Thursday with some…

March 29, 2001

Jakarta Post - March 29, 2001

Banda Aceh – The Banda Aceh Court sentenced Central Information for Aceh Referendum (SIRA) chief Muhammad Nazar on Wednesday to 10 months in…

March 28, 2001

Jakarta Post - March 28, 2001

Jakarta – Hundreds of activists of the Aceh Referendum Information Center (SIRA) held a rally in front of the Dutch Embassy on…

Green Left Weekly - March 28, 2001

Pip Hinman – The Indonesian military is stepping up its war against the Acehnese people.

Jakarta has declared a "limited military operation…

March 18, 2001

Agence France Presse - March 18, 2001

Banda Aceh – At least 14 people were killed in a series of clashes between government forces and separatist rebels in Indonesia's restive province…

March 17, 2001

Associated Press - March 17, 2001

Daniel Cooney, Jakarta – Indonesia has deployed about 1,500 troops to protect Exxon Mobil oil fields from rebel attacks in the violence-plagued…

March 16, 2001

Jakarta Post - March 16, 2001 (abridged)

Jakarta – The United States government maintained on Thursday its opposition to separatism such as that in Aceh, but warned the Indonesian…

March 15, 2001

South China Morning Post - March 15, 2001

Chris McCall, Jakarta – Rebel leaders in war-torn Aceh yesterday denounced plans by Jakarta to mount a new military operation there and said it…

March 14, 2001

Agence France Presse - March 14, 2001

Banda Aceh – A leading supporter of independence for Aceh walked out of his trial Wednesday when it refused to call Indonesian President…

Green Left Weekly - March 14, 2001

Chris Latham & Pip Hinman – On February 20 the "cease-fire" between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian military (TNI) was…

March 13, 2001

Agence France Presse - March 13, 2001

Jakarta – Indonesian authorities are planning to launch "limited security operations" against separatist rebels in the troubled province of Aceh,…

Jakarta Post - March 13, 2001

Banda Aceh – The judges of the Banda Aceh District Court ruled on Monday that the court could continue to try Acehnese independence activist…

March 12, 2001

Jakarta Post (Opinion) - March 12, 2001

Statements by top Indonesian Military (TNI) officers last week signaled mounting pressure on President Abdurrahman Wahid to take a harder line…

Straits Times - March 12, 2001

Jakarta – Exxon Mobil Indonesia's decision to halt oil and gas production in the troubled Aceh province has forced other major…

March 9, 2001

Jakarta Post - March 9, 2001

Banda Aceh – The trial of an Acehnese independence activist charged with revolt opened at the Banda Aceh District Court on Thursday amid a tight…

Christian Science Monitor - March 9, 2001

Dan Murphy, Lhokseumawe – The Aceh coffee is thick and sweet, the grounds sticking to the teeth the way they like it here, as a tense group sips…

March 7, 2001

Jakarta Post - March 7, 2001

Banda Aceh – At least seven people were killed and scores of others injured during a fresh outbreak of violence in Aceh between Sunday and Monday…

March 3, 2001

Jakarta Post - March 3, 2001

Jakarta – Five judges have been appointed to the trial of Central Information for Aceh Referendum (SIRA) chief Muhammad Nazar in the Banda Aceh…

Agence France Presse - March 3, 2001

Banda Aceh – Seven people were killed in Indonesia's troubled Aceh province, three of them when government troops retook a town held for 14 hours…

March 1, 2001

Tapol Bulletin - Number 161 March/April 2001

Peace agreements come and go but on the ground nothing ever changes in Aceh. The death toll has continued to rise, even following a mid-January…

Jakarta Post - March 1, 2001

Banda Aceh – Violence has again escalated in Aceh with at least 11 people being killed in various incidents on Wednesday, while talks continue…