Army death squads roam tsunami coast

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Michael Sheridan, Banda Aceh



INDONESIAN army death squads have murdered at least two young people under the noses of the United Nations and a host of foreign aid groups helping survivors of the Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami, according to eyewitnesses.

The killings have sown terror among local people who are trying to rebuild their lives in towns and villages wrecked by the great wave.

The murders are a direct challenge to efforts by foreign donors, including Britain and the United States, to stop gross abuses of human rights in the rebellious province of Aceh and to encourage a negotiated settlement to one of Asia’s dirtiest conflicts.

The two killings verified by The Sunday Times are likely to be part of a wider campaign of intimidation that foreign military aid has enabled the security forces to carry into rebel strongholds. <snip>

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1552549,00.html

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1. Must be taking their cue for the Iraqi Occupational Authority.

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2. It's Wolfowitz's old post, and since he never complained about ...

... Indonesian atrocities in East Timor, the Indonesians may well be reading his promotion to the World Bank as evidence that they can hide a multitude of crimes behind US skirts, provided they simply do whatever W asks of them.