Former rebels in Indonesia's Aceh completed a weapons handover on Monday under a peace pact that ended one of Asia's longest running civil wars, foreign monitors said, according to Reuters. "Today we could confirm that the (Free) Aceh Movement has offered the last of their weapons, thereby completing their commitment under the Helsinki MOU (Memorandum of Understanding)," Pieter Feith, chief of the European Union-led Aceh Monitoring Mission, told a news conference. The rebel movement, known as GAM, and the government have moved quickly to reduce tensions since signing an agreement in Helsinki in August to end the 30-year war. GAM and Indonesia's government signed the peace pact after months of negotiation spurred on by the Dec. 26 tsunami that smashed into Indian Ocean coastlines.
