JUSTICE is swift in Banda Aceh or so a story doing the rounds in the northern Indonesian city suggests.

Rebels in Indonesia’s tsunami-devastated Aceh province accused the government today of abandoning an informal ceasefire after the military said it had killed scores of suspected guerrillas to protect aid deliveries.

At least 16 people have died and thousands more were forced to evacuate their homes after torrential rain caused flooding across Indonesia.

The Indonesian army has killed the military leader of the Free Aceh Movement, a rebel army fighting for independence in Indonesia’s oil and gas-rich Aceh province since 1976.