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Paratroops drop on Aceh
The Associated Press - Tuesday, May 20, 2003
Jakarta presses attack despite calls for talks
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia More paratroops landed in Aceh on Tuesday in an assault against separatist guerrillas who defied demands to disarm, while officials in Washington and other capitals urged Jakarta to resume autonomy talks with the rebels.
Major General Endang Suwarya, the military chief in Aceh, said a battalion of soldiers was being dropped near the town of Takengon, a rebel stronghold.
Five rebels were killed and seven others captured Monday during the first day of the assault, Lieutenant Colonel Achmad Yani Basuki said Tuesday.
Jakarta has sent more than 1,000 elite troops to the northwestern province, firing rockets and landing marines in what is expected to be Indonesia's biggest military operation since it invaded East Timor in 1975.
There were no immediate reports of fighting Tuesday, but villagers close to the northern town of Bireun found the body of a local councilor who the police said had been shot by the rebels.
Major Laksa Widiana of the Bireun police said rebels in the area were burning buildings - mostly schools. At least 20 schools were burned Monday.
The United States, Japan, Australia and members of the European Union said that talks aimed at securing a deal for Aceh's regional autonomy should have been given more time to succeed. "We hope that it's going to be possible to get back onto the diplomatic path before too long," Foreign Minister Alexander Downer of Australia said Tuesday.
Peace talks between the two sides in Tokyo collapsed Sunday when the rebels rejected Jakarta's demands to lay down their weapons and accept offers for regional autonomy. The rebels vowed to fight on for independence for the province of 4.3 million people.
"It's our judgment that the possible avenues to a peaceful resolution were not fully explored at the Tokyo conference," said a U.S. State Department spokesman, Richard Boucher. "We call for the two parties to return to the negotiating process as soon as possible."
On Monday, government planes rocketed a suspected rebel base close to Banda Aceh, the provincial capital, the first time in several years that air strikes have been used in the province.
About 30,000 government troops are trying to crush about 5,000 poorly armed guerrillas based in mountains and jungles. More than 12,000 people have been killed since 1976 in one of Asia's longest-running conflicts. The offensive signaled a return to military confrontation after the breakdown of a Dec. 9 cease-fire between the government and the Free Aceh Movement.
The accord - which envisioned autonomy, rebel disarmament and military withdrawals - has unraveled amid violence in the province on Sumatra island, 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles) northwest of Jakarta.
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1831
Silk workers' strike in Lyon, France, district de la Croix Rousse. The whole city rises in insurrection when Nationale Guard kills several workers.
1921
I.W.W. picketing miners massacred in Columbine, Colorado. (Yes, the same Columbine.)
1973
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1981
More than 350,000 people protest in Holland against Reagan administration plans to deploy intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe.
1984
Three black activists refuse to leave South African Embassy, initiating months of civil disobedience.
1986
To protect Reagan from the exploding Iran arms-for-hostages scandal, Attorney General Ed Meese personally takes over the investigation (while tipping off National Security Advisor Poindexter, who notifies Oliver North ? North immediately begins destroying evidence); later that day Meese acts to keep the FBI out of the investigation despite his knowledge that, at least, the Arms Export Control Act had been violated.
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