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Exhibition aims to establish common ground amid fractious debate over violence in post-independence Indonesia

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Last time I checked, big foreign corporations are still looting and pillaging all over Africa as if independence never happened... I wonder why?

edit: This includes Shell, a Dutch corporation, btw.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing relative weakness of the governments and rampant corruption.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah... tons of bribe money will do that to the governments of weak nations - it's almost like Cuba had the correct idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Cuba should start bribing those governments to stick it to the West