Tag: indonesia

Mummies and Models in the New Middle East

They can’t help themselves. Really, they can’t. Like children, the most monstrous of secret police outfits evidently come to believe themselves immortal. They lose all ability to imagine that they might ever go down and so keep records to the very moment of their collapse. Those records, so copious, damning, and unbearably detailed (which doesn’t … Continue reading “Mummies and Models in the New Middle East”

US Seeks to Resume Training of Controversial Indonesian Military Unit

The administration of President Barack Obama hopes to resume U.S. training of an elite Indonesian military unit whose members have been convicted of gross human rights abuses in East Timor and elsewhere in the sprawling archipelago. The leadership of Indonesia’s controversial special forces division — the Komando Pasukan Khusus, or Kopassus — has been in … Continue reading “US Seeks to Resume Training of Controversial Indonesian Military Unit”