Don't send Aceh asylum-seekers home: GAM
JAKARTA - Separatist rebels in Indonesia's Aceh province urged Malaysia today to release more than 200 Acehnese asylum-seekers
detained
by the authorities last week.
Ishak Daud, a senior commander of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), said Malaysia should not repatriate them like it did to a group of Acehnese in 1998.
"The Malaysian government must protect Acehnese who fled the war caused by the Indonesian military and police operations," Daud told AFP by telephone.
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