Jakarta – Three male bodies have been unearthedfrom one grave in Aceh province despite the ceasefire in the separatist war, AFP reported.

The bodies were dug up Monday at a palm oil plantation at Kuta Makmur in North Aceh district, said a witness.

He said they bore gunshot wounds and torture marks. They were identified as local residents Muhammad Kasem, 41, Fauzan, 25, and Abubakar, 28. A local spokesman for the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), Teungku Jamaica, said the dead were GAM rebels.

"They were GAM police who were arrested by the military but were killed despite the peace agreement," Jamaica said.

The army denied it was to blame. "It was not the work of the military. It'san attempt to discredit the military," spokesman Major Eddi Fernandi said Tuesday.

GAM and the government signed a peace pact in Geneva on December 9. Security condition in the province continues to improve following the truce, but it may harmed by several conflicts between two parties.