Indo President Wahid has told the people of Aceh that anyone raising the
national flag of Aceh will be shot.
The ending of boycotts and restoration of normal relations with the pariah
state of Indonesia has obviously come far too soon.
Here is the ABC item reporting Wahid's threats (it wrongly called resistance
fighters "separatists" -- a colonial overlord's propaganda term which even
Nazi Germany didn't use in describing the resistance ion occupied territory).
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Aceh separatists mark anniversary of struggle
Separatists in Indonesia's troubled province of Aceh are to mark the
anniversary of their arms struggle today, vowing to push Jakarta to hold a
referendum on independence as in East Timor.
Leaders of the Free Aceh Movement have called on people not to raise their
separatist flag for fear of provoking a miilitary crackdown.
The Indonesian armed forces has warned anyone raising the flag could be shot.
Indonesia's President, Abdurrahman Wahid, says that repressive measures will
be taken if the country's prize terroritorial integrity is challenged by
Aceh separatists.
The guerilla commanders of the Free Aceh Movement will however go ahead with
flag raising ceremonies in their mountain strongholds.
They claim 90 per cent support from the people of Aceh after an often brutal
decade long campaign against them by the Indonesian military.
They are demanding a referendum on independence, similar to the one held in
East Timor. The Indonesian Government may agree to a ballot, but only
offering greater territorial autonomy.
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Dion Giles
Fremantle, Western Australia
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