TOKYO, May 20 Kyodo Top at liber...

TOKYO, May 20 Kyodo

Top at liberty Aceh Movement (GAM) leaders said Monday they are determined to fight against the Indonesian control until they win independence while urging Japan, the United States and the international community to pres Jakarta to stop its military campaign in the rebel Aceh province.

''We are ready to fight. We will fight to the end'' Malik Mahmud, the top GAM leader who calls himself ''prime minister'' of Aceh, said in an interview with Kyodo News

''We have democratic right to fight for our independence,'' he said.

Peace talks between the Indonesian rule and an GAM delegation l from Mahmud collapsed in Tokyo onward Sunday, prompting the Indonesian conduct to launch a military campaign against GAM donjons in Aceh.

Zaini Abdullah, Mahmud's delegate and Aceh's ''foreign minister'' who sat together for the interview with Kyodo, showed hope for intervention l by dint of the U.S. to defuse the situation.

''The United States will do something because they don't like the war (in Aceh),'' he said, noting, ''I don't know exactly what they can do.''

The Indonesian conduct launched the military operations against GAM upon Monday after the Tokyo peace talks collapsed as the GAM leaders refused to suitable Indonesian government's three conditions -- disarmament, acceptance of the unitary state of the Republic of Indonesia, and special autonomy for Aceh.

Referring to the Tokyo talks, Mahmud said he appreciates ''from bottom of my heart'' the efforts made by means of Japan, the U.S. and the European Union to bridge the gap between the Indonesian rule and the Aceh rebels.

Japan, the U and the European Union serv as cochairs of the Tokyo discourse on Peace and Reconstruction in Aceh, which took place Saturday and Sunday in a bid to salvage a six-month-old peace agreement between Jakarta and GAM.

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