SOUTH-EAST ASIA - THE SECOND FRONT IN THE WAR AGAINST TERROR

Conway Hall

Red Lion Square

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The Project for a New American Century (the Washington think-tank whose founders include Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz) says that in order to ensure the ‘greatness and security of the USA ’ and to ‘constrain a Chinese challenge to American regional leadership ’ it is necessary to establish a permanent American military presence in South East Asia.

President Bush has declared South-East Asia the second front in the war against terror. US plans to remilitarise the region are well under way. This public meeting has been called to discuss the implications of US foreign policy for human rights activists, democracy movements, political prisoners and press freedom in Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia. Speakers: Jeremy Corbyn MP Premesh Chandran, Malaysiakini (Malaysia ’s foremost daily internet news service) Liem Soeri Liong (Tapol, Indonesia Human Rights Campaign) Victoria Brittain (former associate foreign editor of the Guardian, part of an international peace mission to Basilan in 2002) Mabel Au (Coordinator of the Committee of Asian Women, Bangkok and partner of political prisoner Tian Chua) Gareth Peirce (human rights lawyer, invited) April 10 is the second anniversary of the detention without trial in Malaysia of six Amnesty International recognised political prisoners and this meeting has been called to coincide with international action in support of Tian Chua, Hishamuddin Rais, Mohd Ezam Mohd Noor, Saari Sungib, Dr. Badrulamin Bahrom and Lokman Adam. More information from AIM-UK, BM Box AIM UK, London WC1N 3XX Tel: Liz Fekete 078879 687 390