Indonesia's Aceh looks for peace after landmark poll
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A former separatist rebel  appeared set on Tuesday to become the next governor of Aceh  after a landmark election in the Indonesian province battered  by decades of conflict and a horrific tsunami
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Voters across Indonesia's Aceh province have flocked to polling stations for elections they hope will cement the tsunami-ravaged region's path to peace after three decades of war.
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Schools in the Indonesian province of Aceh have reopened for the first time since an earthquake and tsunami devastated the region one month ago.
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Indonesia said on Wednesday it hoped to hold talks with separatist rebels operating in tsunami-hit Aceh province at the end of this month to try to ease security concerns amid a massive humanitarian operation.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The world's largest  peace-time relief effort zeroed in on remote northern areas of  Indonesia's Sumatra island where possibly hundreds of thousands  of tsunami survivors have yet to receive aid.
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Indonesia and leaders of Aceh's separatist movement will resume talks next week to discuss limited autonomy for the resource-rich but impoverished province.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia said on  Thursday restrictions on aid workers in Aceh were for their own  safety in a province troubled by a decades-old insurgency, and  voiced readiness to sit down with the rebels to seek a  cease-fire.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Emergency relief in  Indonesia's tsunami-struck Aceh is heading for a new phase, now  that first contact has been established with most remote areas,  the chief of U.N. operations there said Sunday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The largest peace-time  relief effort in history zeroed in on the remote areas of  northern Sumatra that aid had yet to reach while doctors,  troops and relief workers raced to keep tsunami survivors  alive.
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HELSINKI, Sep 20 (IPS) - "Amid all the destruction and loss the mood was  high. People were making bricks, digging  fishponds, building  fishing boats. And people were sitting in coffee shops late into  the night  just as if there had never been any war." This is  how Mahmoud Malik, leader of the rebel  movement of the  Indonesian province Aceh described returning home in April this  year after  more than 30 years' exile.
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Rebels in Indonesia's Aceh offer to put independence demands on hold in return for an eventual referendum.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Accusations flying  between the Indonesian military and rebels in tsunami-ravaged  Aceh province clouded prospects for recovery as aid workers on  Saturday began to switch their focus from relief to rebuilding.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Hunger and grief stalked  the streets of Indonesia's devastated Aceh province on  Wednesday as thousands of people searched for lost family and  friends three days after a massive tsunami swept the region.
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Vote counting began on  Monday in the once-rebellious Indonesian province of Aceh in a  landmark election aimed at bolstering a peace deal between the  government and separatists.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Many desperate families  in Indonesia's Aceh province are turning to traditional magic  men to learn the fate of loved ones still missing more than six  weeks after the Asian tsunami.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Hunger and grief stalked  Indonesia's devastated Aceh province on Wednesday as officials  tried to reach remote areas where tens of thousands were  thought to have died from a massive earthquake and tsunami.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The massive cleanup after  last month's killer earthquake and tsunami paused on Friday as  survivors crowded mosques in Indonesia's ravaged Aceh province  for one of the most important Islamic festivals of the year.