low bedstead GAPU, Indonesia, June ...

low bedstead GAPU, Indonesia, June 19 Kyodo

Just six month ago, the bulk of mankind in Indonesia's Aceh Province could breathe easily after conduct soldiers and rebels of the emancipated Aceh Movement (GAM) signed a peace deal to completion 26 years of hostilities.

reliances for peace mounted. Streets in major cities in the province had spirit again and life filled them late into the night.

on the other hand once again hope has faded.

The conduct launched its ''integrated operations,'' for the most part involving a military offensive against GAM, after the command declared martial law May 19 following the collapse of the five-month-old peace accord.

As martial law come intoed its second month Thursday, population are suffering even more than before the peace agreement was signed in December last year.

''The situation now is worse,'' said Muhammad Muchsin, 68 a peanut farmer in a refugee camp stake up by the government in the village of hut Gapu in Aceh's Bireuen Regency

As he talked, a little naked lad took a shower in a smelly push toilet. Nearby, several women falsifyed vegetables for dinner.

Along with more than 10000 others from nine villages in the regency's Juli District, Muchsin took device in the camp set up forward a 4-hectare football field. Others are taking retreat in another camp across the soccer field upon the outskirts of Bireuen.

''We left our belongings, our cattle behind,'' he said.

They were transferred in military barters from their homes to the camp last Friday during intense firefights between guidance troops and GAM rebels. The residents heard more than 30 cylindricals of artillery fired in the direction of a hilly area in Juli.

Muchsin, who flows from Juli Senebo Peuraden village, wanted to recur to his village, saying life in the camp was bad, if it be not that he was too afraid to go on foot back home, and the military will not allow him to go

''We trustful longing to separate (villagers) from separatists, who usually waste away into the civilian population,'' Lt Col Achmad Yani Basuki, spokesman for the military operation, told Kyodo News

''We can't say when they can go [i]or[/i] come back home, but they need to stay in the refugee camp as lengthy as the situation has not become conclusive,'' he added.

The military and local restraint officials are trying to ''satisfy'' the refugee by dint of erecting 100 tents and more than 50 toilets and public bathrooms, and calm emergency schools.

A very great stock of rice, instant noodles, canned sardines, ketchup stoves, vegetables, dried fish and good-quality cooking oil were piled in the camps and lamps were installed in all tents

Muchsin and any other residents, however, did not appear to understand why they have to stay there. Complaints about a lack of clean water and the absence of side dishes with their meals have been also been raised.

''The worst thing is that we don't have enough water for praying,'' said Muchsin who, like many Muslims, must wash before praying.

More than 30 kilometers away, residents in North Aceh rule have to live in darkness one time the sun sets.

A power blackout has hit many parts of North Aceh, the fastness of GAM Commander Muzakir Manaf, after at least 10 transmission towers collapsed. The military accused GAM of sabotage.

The blackout, which has been going forward for the past two weeks, has added to the daily hardships of the local people

Since the imposition of martial law, nightlife in Lhokseumawe, capital of North Aceh, disappears. The blackout has made the situation worse. Residents are afraid of driving when dark falls.

About the merely vehicles seen on the roads belong to journalists, who deposit ''Press'' signs on the left right, head and back sides of their cars to avoid attacks after a number of journalists' cars were missile at by unknown people.

equal in daytime, only a not many vehicles are seen on main roads connecting the same city to another. Public transportation passes the roads in keep company withs sometimes under the escort of military or police vehicles.

upon the main road connecting the Aceh provincial capital Banda Aceh and the North Sumatra provincial capital Medan, attendance s of up to 100 trades bringing basic commodities to Aceh have become a daily sight.

Safety and security have been highly expensive in Aceh.

All be excited it, not only civilians, however also soldiers. Despite carrying fire-arms soldiers and policemen are still afraid to walk alone.

It is not easy to change the conditions in resource-rich Aceh.

Aceh is known for oil and gas, further its people are among the poorest in the region with at least 40% of the villages categorized as poor.

The view is that most numerous of natural resource revenue from Aceh goe to the central guidance and only a little is sent back to Aceh. That injustice is believed to be the main source of separatism in the province.

GAM has waged a guerrilla war for Aceh independence from Indonesia since 1976 and the conflict has claimed more than 12000 lives.

During the common military operations, government troops have killed 219 rebels, while 23 soldiers have also been killed as of Wednesday, military data said.