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Indonesia hunts Aceh rebels

Curfews may be imposed, more troops sent

REUTERS, Banda Aceh
Indonesian troops hunted rebels in jungle and villages across Aceh yesterday as their officers considered imposing night curfews on flashpoints in the province.
The military said it had killed four separatists overnight, taking the total since Monday to 12. It added that a district rebel commander had surrendered on Wednesday, the second senior separatist to do so in a week.
The military, which launched its biggest offensive in decades on Monday following the collapse of peace talks in Tokyo, said it was considering clamping curfews on Pidie and Bireun districts, both separatist strongholds.
"Violence has risen in both those places. It would make it easier for our operations...to impose a curfew," said Firdaus Komarno, military spokesman in the oil and gas-rich province on the northern tip of Sumatra island.
A spokesman for the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), which began fighting for independence in 1976, insisted no separatists had been killed and accused the military of murdering nearly 50 civilians. The military denied killing noncombatants.
In Jakarta, Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda went on the defensive in the face of international concern, telling foreign envoys Indonesia's territorial integrity was at stake.
"It is they who speak the language of force and terror," he said, blaming the rebels for the unravelling of a landmark five-month-old peace pact. Mediators say the government sank the weekend Tokyo talks.
More than 10,000 people have been killed in the 27-year war but casualty claims are traditionally hotly disputed.
AFP adds: Indonesia's military said yesterday it has killed 22 rebels in a four-day offensive against
Aceh separatists and is sending hundreds more troops to support the attack.
Troops shot dead three guerrillas in a clash in Aceh Besar district near Banda Aceh early Thursday, bringing the total to 22, said military spokesman Yani Basuki.
The government also mounted a diplomatic drive, summoning 115 ambassadors and leaders of international organisations to a meeting in Jakarta to explain its decision to go to war.
Residents in one village in the district where 10 people died on Wednesday said the victims were farmers. They said a boy aged 12 was among the dead.
GAM military spokesman Sofyan Dawood, in a statement to AFP in Jakarta, said troops had killed 28 civilians Wednesday. The military was not immediately available for comment on that figure.