Almost 200 officials killed in Aceh<\/p>\n
BANDA ACEH, Aceh: At least 197 subdistrict officials have been
\nkilled in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam province since 1998, when a
\nseparatist insurgency began to intensify in the province.<\/p>\n
An official with the civil emergency administration in Aceh,
\nSofyanis, claimed on Saturday that these government officials had
\nbeen killed by the Free Aceh Movement (GAM).<\/p>\n
Besides the 197 officials killed, 104 had been permanently
\nincapacitated and 15 others had gone missing, said Sofyanis, the
\ndeputy director of the civil emergency administration in the
\nprovince.<\/p>\n
GAM has been waging a guerrilla war since 1970 in Aceh, but
\nthe group intensified its struggle in 1998 following the demise
\nof Soeharto's iron-fisted regime. The Indonesian government
\ndeclared martial law in the province last year in an effort to
\nwipe out the rebels, but the province's status was lowered to a
\nstate of civil emergency in May of this year after GAM's
\noperations had been significantly curtailed by the Indonesian
\nmilitary operations in the province. -- Antara<\/p>",
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