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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

Aug 10, 2009 - Koppasus special forces. Image from: kebangkitan-kita.blogspot.com/ Kopassus is the Indonesian special forces regiment. May 8, 2014 - As former commander of the army special forces (Kopassus), he was implicated in the kidnapping of pro-democracy activists in 1997/98 when the New Order was on its last legs. The reception staff could not make a copy of his Indonesian identification card 'because the two photocopying machines at the front desk were unavailable.' Could this be an inside-job? Jul 22, 2010 - The decision of the Obama Administration to begin "gradual and limited" engagement with the Indonesian Special Forces (Kopassus) ignores more than a decade-old, bi-partisan, bi-cameral Congressional consensus opposing Military and police units have repeatedly conducted purportedly anti-rebel "sweep operations" in the remote Central Highlands forcing thousands of villagers into the forests where they suffer lack of food, shelter and access to medical care. Jul 23, 2010 - Jakarta (AFP) July 23, 2010 - The United States said Thursday it would resume ties with Indonesian special forces after a 12-year hiatus as part of efforts by Washington to reach out to the world's largest Muslim nation. A detailed examination of Prabowo's role in East Timor was recently published in Inside Indonesia by Gerry van Klinken: http://www.insideindonesia.org/current-edition/prabowo-and-human-rights. 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. Some people suspect that the American-trained Kopassus is behind the 'terrorism' in Indonesia. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, visiting Jakarta on Thursday, announced that the United States would resume ties with Kopassus, an elite unit involved in Indonesia's major past operations including the occupation of East Timor. 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. While 9 were found alive, 1 was found dead, 13 have never been found and are considered .