| Separatist rebels in Aceh province said on Monday that security forces had "kidnapped" their senior negotiator from a hotel where he was staying. "The colonial government of Indonesia must immediately release Amri Abdul Wahab... who was again kidnapped by Indonesian colonial security forces on May 12," Free Aceh Movement (GAM) spokesman Sofyan Dawood said in a statement. Wahab was one of the GAM negotiators who were arrested on Friday and subsequently declared suspects in bombings which police have blamed on GAM in Jakarta and Medan in North Sumatra. They were released Sunday on a guarantee from the Henry Dunant Center, which has mediated peace talks between Jakarta and the separatist rebels. More than 50 international peace monitors withdrew Monday from Aceh and a ceasefire agreement between the government and GAM, signed in December, was close to collapse. |