Guantánamo Suicide Report:Truth or Travesty?

August 26, 2008

Guantánamo Suicide Report:
Truth or Travesty?
 

by Andy Worthington

Two years and two months after three prisoners at Guantánamo died, apparently as the result of a coordinated suicide pact, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), which has been investigating the deaths ever since the long-term hunger strikers were found dead in their cells on June 10, [...]

Professor Kishore Mahbubani about Indonesia

Kamis, 31 Juli 2008
Lecture By Professor Kishore Mahbubani
Presidential Lecture, in State Palace
LECTURE BY PROFESSOR KISHORE MAHBUBANI,
DEAN OF THE LEE KUAN YEW SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY
AT THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
AT THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE,
JAKARTA. 31st JULY 2OO8
Mr President
Distinguished Ministers
Excellencies
Ladies & Gentlemen
I am truly humbled by this request to address such a distinguished
audience. lt is an especially [...]

Indonesia Papua:More religions, more trouble

Indonesian Papua  

More religions, more trouble
Jul 17th 2008 | JAKARTA
From The Economist print edition
 

THE separatist conflict in Indonesia’s Papua region—formerly known as Irian Jaya and once one of the world’s great liberal causes—has become relatively quiet in recent years. Small groups of protesters still occasionally gather to wave the Morning Star independence flag and [...]