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...police. The two forces were split in 1999 and ever since have jockeyed for jurisdiction, influence and the extra income they earn through unofficial?and sometimes illegal?sidelines. (Military and police officers have been accused of involvement in unlicensed logging, prostitution and drug dealing.) "Many military personnel," says Peter van Tuijl, an adviser on police reform for the Partnership for Governance Reform in Indonesia, "cannot accept being told what to do by the police." Last week's attacks suggest they haven't faced off for the last time...
...rivalry, van Tuijl says: "It's about power, control and money." Thus far, it's hard to call a winner, but the losers are clearly Indonesians hoping their security forces will actually provide security...
First came the predawn trip, blindfolded in the back of a Spanish paramilitary van, from his home in Tolosa to a police cell in Madrid. It was there, claims Martxelo Otamendi - the last managing editor of the now banned Basque-language daily Egunkaria - that his ordeal began. While police interrogated him about his newspaper's alleged links to the Basque separatist terror organization ETA, he claims they had him stand naked in his cell for three days, with a chance to sit down only every five hours. Otamendi, 45, says the police humiliated him for his homosexuality, telling...
Only after the intervention of Communist Party leader Nguyen Van Linh was it released for public screening in the 1990s...
...read of Vietnamese filmmakers and artists having to be innovative in their tactics. Tran Van Thuy is a model,” says audience member Richard Streitmatter-Tran...