Associated Press in Banda Aceh – The head of an Islamic university in the restive Aceh province was shot to death on Saturday, police said.

Superintendent Sayed Husaini said two unidentified men shot Safwan Idris, 51, in the neck at his home on the campus of the State Institute of Islamic Studies on the outskirts of provincial capital, Banda Aceh. He died later at a nearby hospital.

His murder brings to at least 120 the number of people killed in Aceh since a truce was struck between separatist guerillas and the Indonesian troops on June 2.

Ayah Muni, a commander of the rebel Free Aceh Movement, accused the military of murdering Safwan, who he said was a respected Muslim scholar and a defender of the rights of the Acehnese people.