| Submit your comments on this article |
| Southeast Asia |
| Megawati sez Aceh rebels are gonna get it... |
| 2002-08-02 |
| President Megawati Soekarnoputri promised tougher action against Aceh in her attempt to end various conflicts in the country, even as she claimed the threat of disintegration around the country was subsiding. "The threat of disintegration that has been afflicting the nation and country in recent years, and the socio-political upheavals due to inter-societal conflicts in several areas, have considerably subsided," the President told the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) during the opening of its annual congress on Thursday. Pretty nice melody she's whistling as she walks past the graveyard, isn't it? Delivering a progress report to the Assembly, Megawati said her government would give priority to ending the conflict Aceh, Papua and Maluku, as well as preserving peace in Central Sulawesi's Poso regency, North Maluku, Kalimantan and Atambua in East Nusa Tenggara. As long as nobody minds, of course... Dedicating over three pages of her 26-page report to the Aceh province, she warned the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) fighters, accusing them of continued hostility and acts of intimidation. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |