BANDA ACEH: Indonesia warned separatists in Aceh yesterday they would be “wiped out” as its military offensive went into a second day. The rebels vowed to fight forever and said 17 civilians had been killed.
Military chief General Endriartono Sutarto, seeking to allay fears among the northern province's four million people that troops would abuse civilians as in past operations, ordered his officers to shoot their own men in the heads if they did.
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