SYDNEY — The large turnout of 230 people for a March 17 dinner and public meeting here on issue "Free Aceh, Referendum now!" is an indication of growing interest in the struggle in Aceh among the Australian public.
The event was
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The military dictatorship of General Pervaiz Musharraf has launched a fierce crackdown against its opponents, arresting 20 leaders of political parties belonging to the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy, including the
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The Argentinian government of President Fernando de la Rua is in crisis and its economic plans are in tatters, after protesters took to the streets in anger at a new austerity package which included savage cuts in government
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BY GREG HARRIS & MARGARET ALLUM With Westminster elections likely to be called for May 3, Tony Blair's British Labour Party appears to be reaching the limits of government by image management. Leaving aside questions of ministerial competence and
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The parties of the banned Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy are calling on supporters worldwide to write to Pakistani ruler Pervaiz Musharraf and to Pakistani embassies to demand the release of imprisoned political leaders. Musharraf's
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Chances are increasingly remote that the Indonesian legal system will bring to justice those responsible for war crimes and human rights abuses committed before, during and after East Timor's August 1999 referendum. Any trial that does
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The Indonesian military is stepping up its war against the Acehnese people. Jakarta has declared a "limited military operation" to "rid" Aceh of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM). The Indonesian government has branded GAM a "separatist"
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Starting March 27, a United States court in Washington, DC, will hear evidence that Indonesian General Johnny Lumintang is responsible for gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity committed in East Timor. The proceeding will
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South African President Thabo Mbeki on March 14 declined to declare South Africa's debilitating AIDS epidemic a national emergency. Such a declaration would have allowed Pretoria to immediately invoke World Trade Organisation
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LONDON — Royal Air Force pilots have protested for the first time about their role in the bombing of Iraq. Pilots patrolling the so-called no-fly zone in the north of the country have spoken angrily about how they have been ordered
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Anti-globalisation protesters demonstrated in their thousands on March 17 in the southern Italian city of Naples against the Global Forum, a meeting of government officials and representatives of the largest information technology
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George W. Bush campaigned for president on two broad themes — as a "compassionate conservative" and against "big government" taking away the rights and money of the American people. Now that he's president, the record is already in on what those