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Center for Research on Globalization
March 26, 2018
U.S. support of “our kind of guy” Suharto as he killed and stole at home and in East Timor, and its long warm relation with Philippine dictator Ferdinand ... But it is of great importance right now to stress the fact that imperial terrorism inevitably produces retail terrorist responses; that the urgent need is theÃâà...
Lima Charlie News
March 20, 2018
According to the nonpartisan Institute for Economics and Peace, the most recent Global Terrorism Index for 2017 provided some key insights into ... Just last week, for the first time in global history, Australia and East Timor sat down at the UN negotiating table to definitively delineate their maritime borders.
Khmer Times
March 19, 2018
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull pointed to the increasingly trans-national nature of terrorism. POOL/AFP / DAN HIMBRECHTS ... In 1985, Australia became the first Western country to formally recognise Indonesia's then sovereignty over East Timor. Asked about the international practice of notÃâà...
World Politics Review
March 14, 2018
It is true that the terrorists who took over the city of Marawi last year, from May to October 2017, made an effort to target Christians and churches. But reporting indicates that these acts of terrorism provoked several acts of Christian-Muslim solidarity in Marawi, with Muslims protecting Christian neighbors atÃâà...
The Sydney Morning Herald
March 8, 2018
Nations attending the summit are also expected to sign a memorandum of understanding on counter-terrorism that covers issues such as greater ... Mr Agusman's comments came after an historic agreement between East Timor and Australia was struck in New York over maritime boundaries, which willÃâà...
Citywire.co.uk
March 7, 2018
Financial Times: A former Russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent, British counter-terrorism police said on ... Financial Times: Australia and East Timor have signed a treaty redrawing their maritime boundary, ending a decade-long dispute between the countries andÃâà...
Arab News
March 5, 2018
He cited examples of jailed former Jakarta governor Basuki TjaHajja Purnama, who is serving his two-year sentence for blasphemy at a special police detention instead of a correctional facility, and East Timor resistance fighter Xanana Gusmao who had been imprisoned in Jakarta when he was fighting forÃâà...
The National Interest Online
March 1, 2018
It has been nearly twenty years since a multinational peacekeeping force deployed to East Timor (as it was then known) to stop the violence and bloodshed resulting from the country's vote for independence from ... There were no ulterior motives of preventing terrorism or securing strategic resources.
The Strategist (blog)
February 28, 2018
... aimed at eliminating terrorism in the area. Though Egypt's armed forces have released numbers detailing their activities, the operation's actual scale, scope and success has been impossible to verify. Since 2014, Egypt has struggled to contain terrorist activity in the Sinai; in February it emerged that IsraelÃâà...
The Australian
February 23, 2018
Gatot, who previously suggested Australia's meddling in East Timor's secession from Indonesia was part of a proxy war to secure oil, also is seen to have ... and the potential for cross-border terrorism, which has risen since last year's five-month Islamic State siege of the southern Philippines city of Marawi.
The Australian
February 20, 2018
The move would be in line with the unveiling last month of a shift in US national security focus from counter-terrorism to contain the rising power of China and ... Australia also cut ties with Kopassus after its members fired on Australian soldiers sent to East Timor in the lead-up to independence in 2002.
Asia Times
February 18, 2018
To deal effectively and efficiently with terrorism, Tjahjanto wrote, the strategy of “proactive law enforcement” should be applied where terrorists are ... between the two countries over the bloody events in East Timor in 1991 and later during the then Indonesian territory's vote for independence in 1999.
OZY
February 13, 2018
... has restricted funding to the group since 1999, when Indonesia conducted what Human Rights Watch called a “scorched earth campaign” in East Timor. ... guidance, although these elite warriors also take part in a broad range of missions, including retaking enemy territory and capturing terrorist leaders.
The Spectator
February 8, 2018
Another thing that islamaphobes love to claim is that Muslims endorse terrorism even if they aren't terrorists themselves. ... When asked about the site and about her initial tweet, Hashimi spoke to the ridiculous expectation that Muslims are constantly expected to apologize for terrorist acts. Muslims, notesÃâà...
The News Lens International
January 20, 2018
Haironesah Domado is a development practitioner from Mindanao, Southern Philippines, and is a Maranao Muslim. She has extensive development experience in conflict affected areas in the Philippines, particularly in the Mindanao region.
The Spinoff
October 17, 2017
Essentially, the prime minister of the day can call any armed group they do not like terrorists, even if they pose no risk to the NZ public. Under Helen Clark's Labour government only groups on the UN List of Al-Qaeda and Taliban related entities were designated as terrorist entities. However, since 2010 theÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 31, 1999
And after promising to make counter-terrorism operations more transparent and rein in executive power, Obama has arguably done the opposite, ... Many states accepted such deal as Israel, Romania or East-Timor[12] and therefore legitimized the US Army to legally violate basic human rights and rules ofÃâà...
