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...Asian neighbors had more somber anniversaries to consider. Eighteen years to the day before the Thai coup, Burmese soldiers shot dead hundreds of prodemocracy protesters in Rangoon; 16 years before that, late dictator Ferdinand Marcos put the Philippines under martial law; and another seven years earlier, a general called Suharto seized power in Indonesia. Burmese and Filipinos, in particular, know what it's like to have tanks on their streets. Why, then, do so many of them support the Thai military's overthrow of Thaksin Shinawatra? The answer says a lot about the state of politics and democracy in many...
...DIED. Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 81, acerbic, leftist Indonesian novelist and dissident; in Jakarta. Detained in 1965 by the anticommunist Suharto regime, he wrote his most famous work, the Buru Quartet, while imprisoned. The series of books chronicled Indonesia's battle for independence from Dutch colonialists, who in the writer's eye bore a striking similarity to Suharto. Freed from house arrest in 1992, he remained an outspoken critic of corrupt Indonesian governments until his death...
DIED. Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 81, acerbic leftist Indonesian novelist and dissident; in Jakarta. Detained in 1965 by the anticommunist Suharto regime, he wrote his most famous work, the Buru Quartet, while imprisoned. The series of books chronicled Indonesia's battle for independence from Dutch colonialists--who in the writer's eyes bore a striking similarity to Suharto. Freed from house arrest in 1992, he remained an outspoken critic of corrupt Indonesian government until his death...
...Since the fall of strongman Suharto in 1998, Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, has become a more open society, with a freer press and more vigorous political discourse. But the new liberalism has also seen a proliferation of sex videos, magazines and tabloids widely available to anyone who can afford them (the average price of a VCD is 5,000 rupiah, or about 55?). Racy programs are aired on late-night television, and one daytime soap even featured an episode in which schoolchildren watched porn videos in a group, then disappeared in pairs soon after...
...else is blamed? CAVR also accuses the U.S. and other nations of failing to stop Jakarta. The report says that American weaponry, supplied to Indonesia as an important Cold War ally, were crucial to the occupation. U.S. President Gerald Ford met with Indonesian President Suharto on the eve of the Dec. 7, 1975, invasion, and?according to declassified U.S. security documents?gave his tacit acceptance of the operation...