Fighting for a cause

This is Mr A, he fought for GAM in Aceh, Indonesia. He got shot 4 times, each time digging the bullet out with his 300 year old knife. Two of his colleagues in the group photo are dead. His wife had to move house 30 times to evade the Indonesian military and police and was routinely beaten up in front of their 3 young children. He is of the opinion that the peace agreement will hold, elsewhere we heard rumours that it wouldn't. There are still small factions running around doing their bit to disrupt it.

There is a lot being written about ex GAM, we're funding a project that offers vocational training to ex GAM youth (who've had a disrupted education at best seeing as the war went on for about 30 years), but not much (if anything) being done about their families who suffered while they were fighting in the hills.