Journalist Allan Nairn, renowned for surviving having his skull fractured by US-trained Indonesian soldiers in the 1991 Santa Cruz Massacre in East Timor, saving colleague Amy Goodman by throwing himself upon her, is reporting that charges against him are imminent for the crime of reporting a crime.
BREAKING: Journalist Allan Nairn charged by Indonesian military for crime of reporting (US-backed) crimes |
| By: knowbuddhau Friday March 26, 2010 8:45 am |
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Change you can bloody well believe in: will Obama start funding Indonesia’s death squads? |
| By: Kirk Murphy Friday March 19, 2010 3:57 pm |
This morning Amy Goodman and Allan Nairn broke the news that Obama plans to resume US funding for Indonesia’s military death squads. Nairn describes how the death squads that once terorrized occupied Timor are up and running – and killing – peaceful opponents to Indonesia rule in Papua and elsewhere. Change? Last year Obama chose Admiral Dennis Blair – who had defied the chain of command and civilian authority to keep funding Indonesia’s death squads in Timor. At least Obama’s consistent: his Attorney General left the DOJ for a white shoe law firm where he successfully protected Chiquita’s CEO’s from responsiblity for paying for and running guns to Central American death squads. Change we can bloody well believe in, no?
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