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View all search resultsThis month has been unusually quiet compared to Septembers past in terms of reanimating the old specter of communism; perhaps we can hope that the 2024 campaign season will be free of such dirty tactics so we can finally allow our democracy to tread the path toward maturity.
Jokowi in January expressed deep regret over 12 deadly events from 1965-2003 which include a purge by the military of suspected communists and their sympathisers, during which at least 500,000 people were killed and more than a million jailed, according to historians and activists.
The latest expert report, presented to a court on Wednesday, will be reviewed by judges in closed hearings ahead of a legally binding ruling on the poet's death in 1973 shortly before the Pinochet dictatorship came to power.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Wednesday expressed regret over mass human rights violations committed in the country's past, including a violent anti-communist purge in the 1960s and the disappearance of student protesters in the late 1990s.
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