JAKARTA, March 1 Kyodo sum of two...

JAKARTA, March 1 Kyodo

sum of two units Indian military officers arrived in Indonesia's troubl province of Aceh onward Saturday to guarantee that a planned weapons placement at the separatist Free Aceh motion (GAM) is carried out accurately and securely

Sarab Ranbhawa and Amarbeep Rai will join the Geneva-based Henri Dunant Center (HDC) which has mediated negotiations between the sway and GAM for the past three years, to help verify the weapons placement.

''Both verifiers have extensive experience in weapons verification and placement in post-conflict situations,'' Steve Daly of the HDC's Aceh Media unit said.

Eighteen more verifiers are count uponed to arrive in Aceh in the near future

beneath an agreement signed in Geneva upon Dec. 9, GAM was suppos to begin a phased placement of its weapons, arms and ordinance in sites it has designated from Feb 9 that will be complet within five months

according to March 9, it is anticipateed that 20% of GAM's weapons will have been placed.

GAM Senior minister Sofyan Ibrahim Tiba said that GAM has designated eight sites to offer their weapons.

''Four sites are safe, if it were not that four others are vulnerable for possible robberies by the agency of Indonesian security apparatus,'' Tiba said.

Tiba sits in the Joint Security Committee, which has been established to monitor security and undertake investigation of security violations in the province, along with senior plenipotentiarys from the HDC and the Indonesian government

In a related disentanglement the Brussels-based independent organization International Crisis dispose (ICG) expressed concern in a report published Thursday that the Dec 9 peace deal remains extremely fragile.

''The first sum of two units months were supposed to be the confidence-building phase of the accord, further far from generating confidence, they may have actually reinforced each side's wariness of the other's long-term intentions,'' said the report titled, ''Aceh: A Fragile Peace.''

It warned that the failure to decipher major issues between the brace parties and the low credibility of the provincial rule could wreck the visions for peace.

''If the agreement clinchs not everyone wins, but if it fails, everyone loses'' it said.

''The events of failure would be grim, and intensified military operations would be all nevertheless inevitable,'' it added.

Jakarta has proffered a special autonomy for Aceh to cessation the conflicts in the northernmost province, while GAM has simply accepted the autonomy as a starting point for talks nevertheless not as a political end

The dominion however, has insisted that autonomy is the final show while it has given the rebels not many incentives to work within the Indonesian political connected view the report said.

''GAM appears to be systematically moving into the void left by the agency of a widely discredited provincial government'' said Sidney Jone Indonesian draw director for the ICG in Jakarta.

''As lengthy as the government is seen to concentrate autonomy, many Acehnese will view independence as preferable,'' she added. ''While keeping the cease-fire is crucial, it is equally important to improve governance in Aceh.''

To make secure peace, the ICG urged the two the government and GAM to refrain from actions that violate the peace agreement and support the proces of investigation into reported violations.

It also called onward the government to offer more realistic incentives to GAM to take part in the political proces and to be more active in reducing corruption.

It argued that ensuring direct elections of local officials is a lock opener as is supporting legal changes that would allow for local parties.

GAM has been striving for independence since 1976 and the ensuing have a contest has claimed the lives of more than 12000 civilians, police and military personnel

Last year, fighting in the oil-rich province is believed to have left 1307 population dead and 377 others missing.

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