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For more imformation about Indonesian militarys attempt to use the terrible humanitarian diaster to their advantage see the website of the liberation movement of the Achenese people, the Aceh Freedom Movement (GAM).
http://www.asnlf.com/topint.htm
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check out their website,
http://www.viacampesina.org/art_english.php3?id_article=500
Also, TAPOL, the Indonesia Human Rights Campaign works with a
number of grassroots humanitarian and human rights organisations
in Aceh and is launching an appeal so that funds can be used by
them to optimum effect where it is most needed by local people.
http://www.tapol.gn.apc.org/st041230.htm
ALLAN NAIRN: Well, Colin Powell announced that the U.S. would be supplying spare parts for C-130 transport planes ostensibly to help with the relief effort, the Indonesian military transport planes. Within days of Powell making this announcement, it came out that the Indonesian military, which had previously used these planes to transport the goods looted from East Timor, as they were destroying East Timor in 1999 to take thousands of Timorese civilian prisoners out after the 1999 campaign of slaughter in Timor, which previously have been used to drop paratroops over Aceh, were now used just in the past week to bring members of two Bin Laden affiliated Indonesian groups, the FPI and the MMI, the Islamic Defenders Front and the Islamic Mujahadin Council, they flew them up to Aceh, ostensibly to help in the relief effort. These groups were created or – well the FPI was in part created by the Indonesian armed forces, and the MMI has received backing from Indonesian military intelligence at various points. The MMI includes Laskar Jihad a group the went into Malukus and helped spark sectarian fighting between Muslim and Christian peasants, Muslim and Christian militias, in which thousands were killed. This was done to create chaos, which the Indonesian military could then take advantage of. And these groups are openly connected to Bin Laden and espouse that ideology.
AMY GOODMAN: You're saying that the Indonesian military has brought them into Aceh now, actually flown them in?
ALLAN NAIRN: Yes, they brought them into Aceh. Some of them are walking around with Bin Laden T-shirts. They go up to foreign reporters and present themselves as Acehnese even though they are not, and James Kelly of the U.S. State Department just said, there's worry that such militants might attack U.S. troops. Well simultaneously Powell was announcing the U.S. is going to aid the Indonesian military, one of the rationales being the Indonesian military is needed to fight such Bin Laden-style military.