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...Nurjaman, can probably be explained by Indonesia's complicated and unstable politics. First, Indonesia has enough turmoil to deal with, from separatist movements to communal massacres. President Megawati Sukarnoputri rules atop an unwieldy coalition of interests, and the last thing she wants to be known for is a reckless crackdown on Islamic groups. "Megawati's government is afraid of arousing Muslim sentiment if anyone is taken in without enough proof," says Hamid Basyaib, a researcher at the Akasara Foundation think tank. And many of those Islamic groups have friends or even founders in high places in the government...
...Indonesia continues to ignore a region-wide crackdown on terrorists, it could become an inviting haven for bad guys on the run?and a launch site for future attacks. Evidence uncovered in the past few weeks proves that the groups have the means to cause terrible devastation. After interrogating Fathur, Philippine authorities were able to collect what National Police Chief Leandro Mendoza called the "biggest haul of explosives in the country's history." Police recovered more than a ton of TNT?enough to level a city block, according to police?as well as 500 detonators and 17 M-16 rifles...
...headlines around the globe. The papers were significant mainly because they reflected serious divisions within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over the "June 4th" incident. As one of the participants during "June 4th," I believe that these documents once again prove beyond doubt that the real reason for the crackdown was to maintain the power held by the ruling elites, and not to "restore social order" as was afterwards claimed...
ARRESTED. ANTON TITOV, 34, finance chief of Vladimir Gusinsky's Media-MOST empire, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit fraud; in Moscow. The arrest is the latest move in a Kremlin crackdown against Media-MOST, in particular its subsidiary ntv--the nation's sole independent TV network. Those actions have been criticized both domestically and overseas as an attack on press freedom. Gusinsky himself is in Spain fighting extradition on embezzlement charges, which he says are politically motivated...
...game of poker. It was easy to watch the student protesters and read the cards on their faces: they wanted political reform, but they held nothing more than their lives. China's leadership was unreadable. Some officials seemed eager for reform; others were enchanted by the possibility of a crackdown. How would they react? When? When tanks finally rolled through Tiananmen on the night of June 4, the world saw how the cards had been played. But the decisions that led to the crackdown were, and have remained, totally opaque...