Independence leader returns to Aceh after three decades

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Updated October 13, 2008 12:38:52

For the first time in 30 years, the 88-year-old founder of the Aceh Independence movement set foot in his homeland.

Hasan Tiro has spent the last three decades in exile in Sweden, coordinating the insurgency from a distance until peace was negotiated in 2005. On Saturday, he arrived back in Aceh, with police saying he was just another foreign citizen.

Presenter: Nuim Khaiyath
Speaker: Muhammad Nur Djuli, chairman of the Aceh Reintegraion Agency and part of the GAM negotiating team

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