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...Eastern policy through the prism of a single, overriding issue?and stepping up the funding of regimes or institutions that had previously been anathema. On Aug. 2, Secretary of State Colin Powell, at the end of an eight-country tour of Asia, pledged $50 million in aid to Indonesia's police and military, citing that country as a potential bulwark in stopping the conceivable domino effect of terror in Southeast Asia. "This has to be a campaign not just against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, but al-Qaeda everywhere," Powell said...
...suspended bilateral ties with the Indonesian military in 1999 because of horrifying human rights abuses in East Timor. While the needs of American policy may have changed, Indonesia's military has not. "The fear among pro-reform elements is that the money could provide an opening for the security forces to go back to the bad old days," warns Sidney Jones, Indonesia Project director of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group. Pakistan's dictator Pervez Musharraf found himself similarly in the U.S.' good graces after Sept. 11. His regime has benefited from hundreds of millions of dollars in debt relief...
...India: Gujarat Still Bleeds Thailand: Mysterious Cop Killings China: Is Beijing Irrelevant? Indonesia: Justice, Jakarta-style...
...India: Gujarat Still Bleeds Thailand: Mysterious Cop Killings China: Is Beijing Irrelevant? Indonesia: Justice, Jakarta-style...
...India: Gujarat Still Bleeds Thailand: Mysterious Cop Killings China: Is Beijing Irrelevant? Indonesia: Justice, Jakarta-style...