Prepared by Karen Parker, J.D. Presented to The United Nations Commission on Human Rights 1996 Session March Geneva Humanitarian Law Project International Educational Development 8124 West Third Street Los Angeles, California 90048 tel. (213) 653-6583 fax. (213) 653-2741 Humanitarian Law Project/International Educational Development (HLP/IED) is a non-sectarian, non-governmental organization ...

THE REPUBLIK MALUKU SELATAN DECLARED Anticipating the ultimate annihilation of a federated state of Indonesia and alarmed by the rapid engulfment of much of the area to Javanese control of the Republic of Indonesia, on 25 April 1950, the Republik Maluku Selatan (Republic of the South Moluccas) was formed by the Malukan people and it declared its separation from both the East Indonesian State and ...