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  • Prabowo Subianto
    Prabowo Subianto
    / Military career, exile, and business ventures

    …to the Kopassandha, now called Kopassus. In October 1994 he was made a brigadier general and deputy commander. The following year, Prabowo began implementing his own plan for pacifying East Timor: funding the creation of a native militia to persecute supporters of East Timorese independence. Named the Gada Paksi (in…

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    …to the Kopassandha, now called Kopassus. In October 1994 he was made a brigadier general and deputy commander. The following year, Prabowo began implementing his own plan for pacifying East Timor: funding the creation of a native militia to persecute supporters of East Timorese independence. Named the Gada Paksi (in…

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