Asia & the Pacific

By John Martinkus and Daniel Pedersen EAST TIMOR — When five shots penetrated the body of the commandant of subdistrict Vermasse as he was on his way to work on July 27, it triggered — by afternoon — a violent and repressive response from

A decade ago, on July 10, 1985, French secret agents bombed the Greenpeace environmental protest flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour. Portuguese-born photographer Fernando Pereira died. New Zealand journalist David Robie writes on the legacy of the nuclear terrorism.

In May, young people carrying a banner "United Front Against Golf Course Development" demonstrated outside the offices of the minister for youth and sport in Jakarta, leading to a heated polemic in the newspapers. A private

Foreign Minister Gareth Evans and his Indonesian counterpart, Ali Alatas, met in Denpasar last week to celebrate the Indonesian parliament's ratification of the so-called "Timor Gap Treaty". Both men, in their roles of daylight train robbers, met in a secluded island to divide the spoils of their robbery.