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'Peace was born': how the 2004 tsunami changed Indonesia's Aceh
Former rebel commander Muharram Idris once led 3,000 men to fight Indonesia's army in separatist Aceh, but now serves as a ...
VOX POPULI: Though horrific, the Indian Ocean tsunami ended a 3-decade war
Exactly 20 years ago, a magnitude-9.1 earthquake occurred on Dec. 26 off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The resulting ...
The 2004 tsunami was one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history. It also carried peace
The waves that shattered thousands and thousands of Indonesian families also led to peace in a province that had been racked ...
After the tsunami: Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 20 years on
On 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake struck 240km west of Sumatra, Indonesia, rupturing the greatest ...
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Indonesia's Aceh thrives 20 years after devastating tsunami, but anguish remains
Indonesia's Aceh province bore the brunt of the tsunami, as a powerful 9-magnitude earthquake rocked the west coast of Sumatra and brought along giant waves that wiped out entire villages in minutes ...
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VII. Appendix
For more information on the human rights situation in Aceh since the resumption of the fighting in May 2003, please see the Aceh under Martial Law series of reports and briefing papers produced by ...
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LGBT rights: Indonesia's Aceh flogs two men for having sex
but Aceh was granted the right to practise Sharia law as part of a peace deal with the Indonesian government in 2006 to end a decades-long separatist war. At the time, Acehnese political leaders ...