HASAN Tiro, 79, is the walinegara (head of state) in the Free Aceh Movement (GAM). He studied at New York’s Columbia University in 1950 and worked for the Indonesian office in the United States. He finished his Ph.D but remained and did business in America until 1976, when he returned to Aceh to work.
He declared Aceh’s independence from Indonesia in December 1976 and, in the early 1980s, fled to Malaysia and later sought asylum in Sweden.
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