PEACE talks between the Indonesian government and the Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (Free Aceh Movement, or GAM) collapsed noisily in Tokyo last Sunday.
Within hours, Jakarta returned to its 27-year civil war with Acehnese partisans, with the combined assaults by aircraft, warships, paramilitary forces and police mounting the most serious incursion since the invasion of East Timor in 1975.
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