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US Pledges to Step Up Military Ties With Indonesia

US Pledges to Step Up Military Ties With Indonesia

The United States will step up its military cooperation with Indonesia, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in Singapore on Friday after meeting his Indonesian counterpart Purnomo Yusgiantoro. ...

How EU Leaders Sold Out Burma

How EU Leaders Sold Out Burma

When David Cameron backed the suspension of EU sanctions on Burma in April 2012, he emphasised in no uncertain terms that they would return if President Thein Sein’s administration reneged on democratic reform ...

Arming the Illegal Occupation of West Papua

Arming the Illegal Occupation of West Papua

Despite glaring human rights concerns, western nations are lining up to feed the Indonesian military's (TNI) thirst for blood in West Papua. While the TNI engages in ethnic cleansing "sweeps" in remote areas of West ...

US to provide missiles for Indonesian genocide in West Papua

US to provide missiles for Indonesian genocide in West Papua

Today a Department of Defense document became available detailing a proposed arms deal between the USA and Indonesia. The deal, worth $25 million, calls for supplying Indonesia with a large number of missiles to be p ...

UK defends Indonesia arms sales as military run riot in Papua

UK defends Indonesia arms sales as military run riot in Papua

Today UK human rights campaigners called for an immediate ban on all arms sales to Indonesia, following Wednesday’s brutal rampage by Indonesian security forces in the troubled Papua region. ...

China’s Kachin Crime

China’s Kachin Crime

"One of Burma’s largest rebel groups could fall, the Kachin people could be left to face the junta’s programme of ethnic cleansing and other minority groups would inevitably follow." ...