Hasan di Tiro Military person

Tengku Hasan Muhammad di Tiro (25 August 1925 – 3 June 2010), born Hasan Bin Leube Muhammad, was the founder of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), an organization which attempted to separate Aceh from Indonesia from the 1970s. It surrendered its separatist goals and agreed to disarm as agreed to in the Helsinki peace deal of 2005. He was a descendant of Tengku Cik di Tiro on maternal side, an Indonesian national hero who was killed fighting the Dutch in 1891. In 2010 he obtained his Indonesian citizenship back shortly before his death.

Personal facts

Hasan di Tiro
Birth dateAugust 25, 1925
Birth place
Aceh , Dutch East Indies
Date of deathJune 03, 2010
Place of death
Indonesia , Banda Aceh

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Military person

allegianceFree Aceh Movement (GAM)
military operations
Insurgency in Aceh
military commandNational Acehnese Army
service start1976
service end2005

Hasan di Tiro on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.acehbooks.org/pdf/ACEH_03654.pdf
  2. http://www.asnlf.org/files/9013/3556/6326/The_Legal_Status_of_Acheh-Sumatra_under_International_Law.pdf