Indonesia's first human-rights trial convicted 24 soldiers...

Indonesia's first human-rights trial convicted 24 soldiers and a civilian yesterday of murdering dozens of villagers during a massacre in Aceh's civil war last year. The men were sentenced to terms ranging from 8 to 10 years by a joint civilian-military tribunal, after prosecutors dropped demands for the death penalty because they had only been obeying orders from Lieutenant Colonel Sudjono, who remains at large. President Abdurrahman Wahid is determined to crack down on human rights abuses by the army, which has been waging a war against separatist rebels in Aceh for 25 years.