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GA-02220 1965-04-24 Neue Zürcher Zeitung rel B

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 24. April 1965: Aidit und der indonesische Kommunismus - Auf dem Sprungbrett zur Macht

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 24 April 1965: Aidit and Indonesian communism - on the springboard to power

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 24 April 1965, long analytical article 'Aidit and Indonesian Communism: on the springboard to power'. It reviews the Indonesian crisis, PKI history from 1920 through Madiun 1948, Aidit's rise and biography. Gerwani appears once, as a PKI front organisation with 1.5 million members, alongside SOBSI

GA-03590 1973-10-12 Thurgauer Zeitung rel B

Thurgauer Zeitung (12 Oct 1973): Zeit der Folterungen, eine düstere Seite der Gegenwart (Sri Ambar)

Swiss press, 12 Oct 1973: Amnesty torture campaign, Sri Ambar hung by her wrists

Swiss Thurgauer Zeitung, 12 October 1973, a dpa wire report on Amnesty International's 'Week of the Political Prisoner' campaign against torture, naming ten torture victims. The Indonesian Sri Ambar (Sri Ambar Rukmiati per the sweep log) is said to have been beaten stripped and hung naked by her wrists a whole night. H

GA-03591 1973-10-12 Walliser Bote rel B

Walliser Bote, 12 October 1973: Ostpolitische Zusammenhänge (Amnesty torture report, Sri Ambar)

Swiss press, 12 Oct 1973: Amnesty torture campaign, Sri Ambar hung by her wrists

Swiss newspaper page (Walliser Bote, 12 Oct 1973) of agency news, mostly German Ostpolitik and Swiss matters. A short item on Amnesty International's anti-torture campaign says that the Indonesian woman Sri Ambar was beaten naked and hung by her wrists for a whole night; the catalogue identifies her as Sri Ambar Rukmia

GA-03583 1987-05-14 Courrier de Geneve rel B

Violations des droits de l'homme a l'encontre de parlementaires (Courrier de Geneve, 14 May 1987)

Swiss press, 14 May 1987: violations of human rights against parliamentarians (IPU; Sundari)

Courrier de Geneve report (by Angelica Roget, 14 May 1987) on 100 cases of abuse of parliamentarians raised at the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference in Managua. For Indonesia it says only that 'M. Sundari', a former parliamentarian aged 70, has been detained since 1965. The identification with Siti Sundari Abdul Rah

GA-03586 1987-05-14 L'Express (Switzerland) rel B

L'Express (14 May 1987): Violations des droits de l'homme à l'encontre de parlementaires (IPU; Sundari)

Swiss press, 14 May 1987: violations of human rights against parliamentarians (IPU; Sundari)

Swiss paper L'Express, 14 May 1987, on the 77th Inter-Parliamentary Union conference (Managua, 27 April-2 May 1987), which denounced about 100 cases of abuse against MPs in Chile, Turkey, Vietnam, Somalia, Colombia, Indonesia and Swaziland. For Indonesia it names only 'M. Sundari', a 70-year-old former MP detained sinc