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Indonesia Violence Kills At Least 27
Separatist and ethnic violence wracked parts of Indonesia Tuesday, with death tolls from clashes rising on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra.
In the town of Sampit on Borneo, police said 20 people were killed ¡ª most of them hacked or stabbed to death ¡ª in fighting between indigenous Dayak people and migrants from other parts of Indonesia.
Police were searching for two government workers who allegedly provoked the violence Sunday with a dispute over logging near the town, 480 miles northeast of Jakarta.
In Sumatra, clashes between Indonesian security forces and separatist guerrillas in Aceh province killed at least seven and injured 11 others, police and human rights activists said. Five bodies were found dumped in a street in Langsa town. They appeared to have been tortured and stabbed, Human rights worker Mohamad Jusuf said.
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