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Kopassus: Inside Indonesia's Special Forces by Ken Conboy

Kopassus: Inside Indonesia's Special Forces Ken Conboy ebook
Page: 247
ISBN: 9799589886, 9789799589880
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Format: pdf

Gates spoke about the Indonesian military's reforms and said it is prepared to ensure accountability for any human rights abuses by its soldiers. Jun 29, 2009 - Hartoyo and his partner were then taken outside into a courtyard and were made to squat on the ground in their underwear. Jul 24, 2010 - In announcing this week that the United States would lift a 12-year-long ban on providing military assistance and training to Indonesia's special forces unit, Defense Secretary Robert M. Nov 8, 2010 - Indonesian army special forces wears masks as they prepare to evacuate the victims of Mount Merapi eruption at Pejambon in Sleman, Yogyakarta, on November 8, 2010. Jun 24, 2013 - Heru Santosa was a sergeant in the Kopassus, the red beret-wearing elite Indonesian Special Forces unit. International airlines were forced to reschedule dozens of flights to Indonesia yesterday as deadly Mount Merapi spewed ash into the sky, ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama. Police officers sprayed them with cold water from a hosepipe for around 15 minutes. Nov 15, 2010 - Earlier this year, the US administration announced the re-establishment of military ties with Indonesia's Kopassus special forces – the same forces implicated in the atrocities of East Timor. Oct 28, 2011 - Documents from Indonesia's special forces, or Kopassus, leaked by Australian media in August, have revealed that Yaboisembut was on the top of the military's watch list. Leaked Kopassus documents released last week, have I found a land where the remnants of the Suharto era very much live on into the modern day – far from the image of democracy that Obama painted in his speech to the Indonesian nation. By New York-based Human Rights Watch, details cases of brutality by Indonesian special forces - Komando Pasukan Khusus, Kopassus - in the town of Merauke in Papua. As usual, shadow puppet politics defied easy understanding and set many rumor mills into action. My experience with Promises to shift abusers out of Kopassus and into other military units are simply not enough. May 13, 2014 - This is the predicament of Mugiyanto, an Indonesian pro-democracy activist who was kidnapped and tortured by Indonesian special forces (Kopassus) in 1998 during the final months of the Suharto regime. General Suharto took power in 1966 During an investigation into the kidnappings which lasted until 2002, Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights tried to interview Prabowo, but he consistently refused to show up. Oct 3, 2013 - The Indonesian military as a whole has taken steps to address this culture.