Tuesday, May 20, 2003

Indonesia's ''conditions'' sunk Aceh talks-mediators
'''The government came with additional conditions. It made any discussion, any dialogue, impossible,'' said a spokesman for the Swiss Henry Dunant Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HDC), which helped negotiate a ceasefire that has collapsed. Just after midnight on Sunday, President Megawati Sukarnoputri gave the go-ahead for war against the rebels after the talks in Japan failed, leaving a landmark peace pact welcomed by Aceh's four million people in tatters... The Geneva-based group had mediated an historic deal between the government and rebels last December aimed at ending over two decades of bloodshed in the oil-rich province'

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