In Indonesia, Rebels Express Thanks for Aid
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Rebels in Indonesia's Aceh Province said that the group's top leadership had issued orders not to harm any aid workers.
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Relief agencies responding to the disaster in southern Asia, Indonesia and Thailand are seeking financial support locally for their efforts.
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KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka  - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger  rebels said on Saturday they had put politics aside to clear up  after the Asian tsunami, but added that swifter, fairer  government aid distribution could boost peace prospects.
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Aid trickled in to the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Thursday after a deadly quake but survivors said they still lacked food, water and shelter -- echoing criticism after past disasters.
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Rebels in Aceh have agreed not to disrupt the flow of aid into the province, Indonesia's foreign minister says.
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Indonesia and Aceh separatists have  agreed to work toward a lasting peace deal to help rebuild the  province which took the brunt of the Dec. 26 tsunami, saying on  Saturday after talks in Helsinki they would meet again soon.
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Rebels in tsunami-battered Aceh province will not attack foreign relief workers, an insurgent commander said Monday, amid a warning of an imminent terror strike in the region and a claim by Indonesia's military that guerrillas may target the aid groups.
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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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Indonesia's vice president welcomed a cease-fire offer by Aceh's rebel movement, saying Thursday that Jakarta would "make efforts" toward keeping the peace as it seeks to rebuild the tsunami-battered region.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A week after a tsunami  devastated Indian Ocean shores, aid workers and troops battled  desperate conditions and the aftermath of torrential rain to  bury rotting bodies and deliver relief to survivors.
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Indonesia says it hopes for formal peace talks with Aceh's rebels after the tsunami created a lull in clashes.
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LHOONG, Indonesia  - As a rebel fighter, Marjuni Ibrahim hid out in Aceh's jungle. These days he leads "guerrilla tours" taking visitors with a taste for extreme hiking and an interest in Aceh's turbulent past over the same terrain.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- Indonesia warned aid workers yesterday that separatist rebels have taken shelter in camps for survivors, and a burst of violence hit Sri Lanka, signaling a potential resurgence of long-simmering rebellions in both countries that could hamper help for victims of the tsunami disaster.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Substantial help finally  began reaching refugees in Indonesia's devastated Aceh province  Saturday, and the U.S. military arrived in force to speed the  flow of critically needed aid.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Substantial help finally  began reaching refugees in Indonesia's devastated Aceh province  on Saturday, and the U.S. military arrived in force to speed  the flow of critically needed aid.
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Sri Lanka's reclusive Tamil Tiger rebel leader made a rare personal appeal Wednesday to international aid donors and U. N. organizations to help ethnic Tamils affected by the disastrous tsunami waves that hit the island.
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U.S. Marines joined an international effort to deliver aid and medical care to nearly 650,000 Indonesians displaced by a devastating earthquake, as hopes faded of finding more survivors.