Flashbacks of Iraq war in Aceh offensive


  • Letters
  • Monday, 26 May 2003

Back from the mayhem and horror of the war in Iraq, SHAHANAAZ HABIB finds something similar happening across the Straits of Malacca. 

IT ALL sounds so familiar. Just five weeks after the fall of Baghdad to US-led forces, Indonesia has gone on the offensive in Aceh to finish off “once and for all” rebels seeking a separate state. 

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