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8 | Indonesia Coasting to Victory Exit polls indicated that incumbent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono notched a decisive win in Indonesia's July 8 presidential election. More than 100 million people cast ballots in the world's most populous Muslim nation. Supporters laud Yudhoyono for fighting extremism and guiding the country through...
He also knows Guatemalan politics is still treacherous. More than 50 candidates were assassinated during the general election in 2007, the same year three visiting Salvadoran congressmen were murdered by rogue policemen (who were then mysteriously killed themselves). In his video, Rosenberg says his coffee-baron client Khalil Musa was...
A Kenyan human-rights group alleged on July 17 that a dozen parliamentarians and seven ministers were involved in inciting, financing and participating in violence last year following Kenya's disputed December 2007 election. The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights listed 219 people and organizations as suspects in crimes...
Ruto, the report said, incited, financed and planned violence through hate speech and it quoted him saying that his tribe, the Kalenjin, would uproot outsiders and burn them. The report said: "Politicians who during the election campaign period preached messages of ethnic hatred particularly aimed at the forceful eviction ... are...
Now the question is whether the foreign community will be as forgiving. Over the past year, Indonesia has profited from the political uncertainty in regional neighbors Thailand and Malaysia, with foreign investors considering the once turbulent country as an alternative location to park their cash. Indonesia recorded 4.1% year-on...