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Former Indonesian President Suharto, the U.S. Cold War ally who led one of the 20th century's harshest and most corrupt dictatorships over 32 years that saw up to a million political opponents ...
Former Indonesian dictator Suharto, a U.S. Cold War ally whose military regime killed hundreds of thousands of left-wing opponents, was buried Monday at a state funeral with full military honors ...
During his 32-year autocracy, Indonesian President Suharto had a knack for keeping people in doubt about his plans. He was a man of few words. He rarely said "yes" or "no." Rather, he would convey ...
Suharto suffered multi-organ failure and was placed on a ventilator Friday, doctors said, as family members rushed to the former Indonesian dictator's bedside. Physicians called his deteriorating ...
Suharto's youngest son, Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, was released from prison in 2006 after serving a third of a 15-year sentence for ordering the assassination of a Supreme Court judge.
Suharto's trial is expected to attract crowds of pro-democracy student protesters who helped oust Suharto from power in 1998 and have been demanding his prosecution ever since.
Surgeons implanted a pacemaker in former dictator Suharto on Wednesday, a day after he was brought to the hospital with low blood pressure and an irregular heart beat. Doctors at Jakarta's state ...
Suharto was all they knew and, to his credit, he held the country together through some difficult challenges.” Aburizal Bakrie, Golkar’s leader, is openly citing Suharto in his campaign stops.
One of Suharto's sons, Hutomo Mandala Putra, known as Tommy Suharto, was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison on graft charges for his role in a land scheme that cost the government $11 million.
JAKARTA, Indonesia — For Suharto, once the all-powerful ruler of Indonesia, life today is a tangle of medical tubes, criminal charges and political intrigue. Now 79, the former military dictator ...