In cities around Australia and
in over 100 centres world wide, demonstrations are being held to mark
GDAMS which coincides with the publication by the Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute of world military expenditures
for the past year.
Speakers included Dr Anne Noonan, Medical Association for the Prevention of War and Dr John Kaye, NSW Greens MLC.
Anne Noonan also of AWPA (Sydney) said Many Australians did not realize that Australia
helps fund and train the Indonesian military and in
particular Detachment 88 which is Indonesia’s counter-terror
unit. Detachment 88 was set up after the Bali bombing to target
terrorists’ organisations in Indonesia.
However Detachment 88 is also
being used in West Papua to target West Papuan activists and human
rights defenders involved in the self-determination struggle and is way
outside their brief.
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