Tag: Military Forces
Jale Moala: The Fiji coup that started it all
FLASHBACK: Jale Moala, a former editor of the Fiji Daily Post, recalls the day of Fiji's coup.
It's the morning of 14 May 1987, just...
SAS ‘atrocity’ book authors accuse PM of allowing issue to ‘fester’
The authors of the controversial investigative book Hit & Run have accused Prime Minister Bill English of ensuring the allegations of a New Zealand...
Indonesia’s tug-of-war: The age of pseudo-military leaders rolls on
ANALYSIS: By Johannes Nugroho (Part 2)
Following the awkward debacle of suspended military cooperation with Australia, in another maverick moment, General Gatot Nurmantyo told the...
Indonesia’s military and police locked in presidential tug-of-war
ANALYSIS: By Johannes Nugroho (Part 1)
Since its inception in 2014, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's administration has witnessed growing rivalry between the Indonesian Military (TNI)...
Hit & Run reply: This is what a military cover-up looks...
By Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson
The Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant-General Tim Keating presented the NZ Defence Force response to the book Hit &...
SAS soldier backs up Afghan raid claims – Herald calls for...
A NZ Special Air Service soldier has confirmed civilians were killed in a 2010 raid carried out by the unit and says the truth...
Authors of new book call for full inquiry into SAS ‘betrayal’...
Radio NZ video news feed of the Hager and Stephenson media conference last night. YouTube
Author and investigative journalist Nicky Hager and war correspondent Jon...
Hela ‘no Bougainville’, says former PNG defence force chief Singirok
By Catherine Graue of Pacific Beat
As hundreds of police and soldiers begin their work in Papua New Guinea's Hela Province this week, there have...
Media face blockade over human rights reporting in Myanmar
AL Jazeera's report on the crisis in Myanmar: The video includes exclusive interviews with villagers who reveal accounts of military officers killing a 13-year-old...
Timor-Leste’s ANTI alliance condemns impunity over ex-General Wiranto
Timor-Leste's National Alliance for an International Tribunal (ANTI) has condemned the Joko Widodo government in Indonesia for appointing retired general Wiranto as a minister...
Soldiers sent to Timor-Leste border for drug smuggling patrols
Three hundred and fifty Indonesian soldiers from West Kalimantan’s Tanjungpura Military Command have been assigned to keep peace along the border between Indonesia and...
13 PNG soldiers accused of mutiny face full trial
Thirteen Papua New Guinea Defence Force soldiers who were charged with mutiny have begun testifying.
On Tuesday, they submitted to the Bomana National Court that...
Crispin C. Maslog: Martial law amnesia – we didn’t teach history...
I give my column space today to my favorite communication man, Professor Crispin C. Maslog. A former journalist with Agence France-Presse, Cris was director...
Mong Palatino: The ‘death of democracy’ in Southeast Asia
Democracy has died and been reborn several times in different countries in the region, writes Mong Palatino.
On March 2, 1962, General Ne Win led...
Russians hand over equipment to Fiji military
By Mere Naleba in Suva
The Russian Ambassador to Fiji, Vladimir Morozov, and Russia's head of the Missile Artillery Chief Directorate, Lieutenant-General Nikolay Parshin, have...
Indonesia: Civilian supremacy, or civilian inferiority?
OPINION: By Dwi Atmanta in Jakarta
After nearly 18 years of reform, public recognition of the Indonesian Military (TNI) as both defender of the state...
An Australia Day flashback – Other People’s Wars
A 1988 John Pilger documentary, The Last Dream: Other People's Wars, looks at the complicated relationship that Australians have with war.
A 2015 YouTube viewer's...
Indonesian military to boost presence in outlying islands
By Julkifli Marbun in Jakarta
The Indonesian military (TNI) will strengthen its presence in the country's outlying and foremost islands particularly in the eastern part...
