BANDA ACEH - At least 19 people died in violence in Indonesia's troubled Aceh province on the weekend. The bloodshed continued ahead of a key review of the military's efforts to crush a long-running separatist struggle. An Aceh military spokesperson said one soldier and 10 rebels were killed in separate clashes on Sunday, while Indonesian troops killed eight suspected rebels in five encounters a day earlier.
The latest deaths follow one of the bloodiest weeks for the Free Aceh Movement rebels since the May 2003 launch of a government offensive to end their 28-year fight.
Clashes saw 17 die on Thursday and Friday. As many as 13,000 people have been killed since May 2003. Human rights activists says many of them were civilians. Rebels say more than 2,000 guerrillas have been killed.
After a year of martial law, Jakarta put control of Aceh back into the hands of civil authorities, but kept the impoverished region under a state of emergency. The state of emergency expires later this month forcing Indonesia's government to decide whether to renew it.
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BANDA ACEH - At least 19 people died in violence in Indonesia's troubled Aceh province on the weekend. The bloodshed continued ahead of a key review of the military's efforts to crush a long-running separatist struggle. An Aceh military spokesperson said one soldier and 10 rebels were killed in separate clashes on Sunday, while Indonesian troops killed eight suspected rebels in five encounters a day earlier. 
