{"id":8144,"date":"2023-12-10T14:52:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T14:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asia-ajar.org\/justiceforpeace\/?p=8144"},"modified":"2024-11-27T10:03:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T10:03:08","slug":"exhibition-tunnel-of-memory-unlocking-the-truth-of-the-past-world-human-rights-day-10-december-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asia-ajar.org\/justiceforpeace\/exhibition-tunnel-of-memory-unlocking-the-truth-of-the-past-world-human-rights-day-10-december-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition: \u201cTunnel of Memory: Unlocking the Truth of the Past\u201d, World Human Rights Day, 10 December 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Pictures of missing people and images of the past conflict were the\u00a0 highlights of an exhibition held on the grounds of KontraS Aceh. The work of\u00a0 Acehnese journalists also included the official reconciliation ceremony between GAM and victims of the Aceh conflict. Around 150 visitors could\u00a0 also see images of the Participatory Action Research (PAR) involving\u00a0 villagers in Central Aceh, who had willingly joined efforts to secure peace following major clashes among them in 2001. A discussion during the exhibit also took place between a former head of\u00a0 Sedie Jadi village, Suterisno and a resident of Pilar Jaya village, Mawaddah,\u00a0 both in Bener Meriah district. Fighters of the GAM from Pilar Jaya had\u00a0 attacked Sedie Jadi village, however, victims included locals of both villages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mawaddah was shot in the leg when trying to flee her village. As she was treated in hospital it turned out her husband was tortured to death by\u00a0 villagers. He was part of a group of GAM fighters who went back and forth\u00a0 between their village and the mountains to recruit members and take supplies\u00a0 from civilians.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Since he married Mawaddah he took up residence in the village.\u00a0 Villagers who had become nervous about the GAM became drawn to the military\u2019s promises of cash rewards for those who could capture GAM fighters, and Mawaddah\u2019s husband fell victim to her neighbours.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

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For some 20 years, Mawaddah suppressed her anger and pain. In addressing the talks on Human Rights Day, Mawaddah and the former village head Suterisno both stressed the importance of sharing insights into past human\u00a0 rights abuses to the younger generation, to ensure their role in preventing recurrence of violent conflicts. On 29 March 2022 Suterisno signed a peace\u00a0 agreement with the former local GAM commander, in a reconciliation ceremony\u00a0<\/span>among local leaders of the former hostile villagers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the evening attendants listened to an oration by Suciwati, an activist and wife of\u00a0 the slain human rights defender Munir. The mastermind of his fatal poisoning aboard a Garuda Indonesia flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam, in September 2004,\u00a0 remains at large. The only suspect, a now deceased off-duty pilot, was sentenced\u00a0 to 20 years and was finally acquitted. Munir was involved in many investigations of gross human rights violations including those in Aceh. A monologue titled \u201cHalimah\u201d, which narrated the loss of family during the conflict, closed the above event. <\/span><\/p>\n

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