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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 21, 2005 11:31 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [IQR] Indonesia kills 120 rebels in devastated
Aceh</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=storyheadline><FONT size=5><STRONG>Indonesia kills 120 rebels in
devastated Aceh, tsunami toll nears 220,000</STRONG></FONT></DIV><BR clear=all>
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<DIV class=timedate><FONT size=2>Thu Jan 20, 5:51 PM ET</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=timedate><!--StartFragment -->BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AFP) -
<FONT face=arial size=-1>Indonesia's military said it had killed 120
separatist rebels over the past two weeks in tsunami-devastated Aceh
province, despite pledges by both sides to focus on a massive relief
effort rather than fighting.</FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>"Over the past two weeks we
have been forced to kill 120 GAM (Free Aceh Movement) members and seized
their weapons," army chief General Ryamizard Ryacudu said, claiming they
had been stealing relief supplies. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>GAM has declared its own
ceasefire and both it and the Jakarta government have expressed interest
in sitting down for peace talks after the disaster killed 166,760 people
in Aceh and elsewhere in north Sumatra. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>Rebel spokesman Sofyan Daud
said that only six of his men had actually been killed, insisting most of
those killed by the military were civilians -- a familiar but unverifiable
claim by the insurgents. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>The United States called for
a political answer to the decades-old struggle in Aceh, a conflict that
continued even after the region took the full force of the December 26
earthquake and the waves it created. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>Confirming some of the worst
fears over the scale of the disaster, Indonesia's health ministry upped
its death toll by almost 70,000 late Wednesday. The toll across the Indian
Ocean is now close to 222,000. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>The Indonesian figure,
reached when thousands said to be missing were listed as dead, conflicted
with a tally of 115,000 from the social affairs department. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>However it appeared to be
reaching the numbers that officials including the UN's chief humanitarian
coordinator Jan Egeland, had predicted. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>Egeland said in early
January, when Indonesia's toll was around 90,000, that the figure would
rise "exponentially" here after a more thorough assessment of the damage.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>As efforts continued around
the Indian Ocean basin to help the suffering, Egeland said cash pledged by
donor countries was beginning to roll in. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>Donor nations promised
billions of dollars after the tsunamis, but the United Nations (<A
href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/afp/wl_afp/asiaquake/14050723/*http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&p=%22United%20Nations%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw">news</A>
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href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/afp/wl_afp/asiaquake/14050723/*http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=web-storylinks&p=United%20Nations">web
sites</A>) on January 6 appealed for 977 million of the sum to immediately
meet needs of survivors. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>"The donor response has
never, ever been better or more generous or more immediate," Egeland told
a conference on disaster reduction in Kobe, Japan. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>The United States, which has
led foreign military operations that have been the backbone of relief
operations in Aceh, indicated it would begin winding down its relief
operations "right now". </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>The commander of US forces in
the Pacific Admiral Thomas B. Fargo told a news conference "there have
been no deadlines or datelines established" but that two months was
probably long enough for the main military aid effort. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>"My observation here is that
we are pretty much past the immediate relief phase and we're rapidly
moving towards rehabilitation and reconstruction. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>"We will start right now
transferring functions to the appropriate host nation and international
organisations," he said. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>Thousands of foreign military
personnel from countries including Malaysia, France, Singapore, India and
Japan, equipped with warships and helicopters, have helped bring relief to
isolated areas of Aceh's tsunami-hit coastline. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>But their arrival has stirred
some resentment in traditionally nationalist Indonesia, particularly in
Aceh, where authorities have imposed restrictive security. They blame the
separatist conflict. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>Indonesia indicated Wednesday
it may sit down for peace talks with Free Aceh Movement leaders before the
end of January in what would be the first step towards reconciliation
since a truce collapsed in May 2003. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>The United States called late
Wednesday for a political solution to the conflict, with Deputy Defense
Secretary Paul Wolfowitz arguing that the country's powerful military
should be "pushed to get out of the way" if they drag their heels.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>Wolfowitz, fresh from a tour
of Indonesia and other disaster-hit countries, suggested that military
ties suspended in 1999 over a crisis in East Timor (<A
href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/afp/wl_afp/asiaquake/14050723/*http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&p=%22East%20Timor%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw">news</A>
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href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/afp/wl_afp/asiaquake/14050723/*http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=web-storylinks&p=East%20Timor">web
sites</A>) could slowly be restored as a reward for peace. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>"We have a chance to give
some meaning to that tragedy by moving to a better future, including
particularly trying to move toward a political resolution of that problem
in Aceh," Wolfowitz said in an interview. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>In Japan, where experts are
meeting in Kobe to discuss ways of limiting the effects of future natural
disasters, the United Nations was on Thursday put in charge of offers to
build a tsunami early warning system. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=timedate><FONT face=arial size=-1>Salvano Briceno, head of the
UN disaster reduction group, said a system to warn of giant waves in the
Indian Ocean was still on track to be operating in 12 to 18
months.</FONT></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV>
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