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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia denied Saturday that any of its security forces trained in the United States had a history of human rights violations, as alleged in a report released by a U.S. congressional investigative office.
The Government Accountability Office said in the report issued Friday that military trainers violated U.S. law by instructing 6,900 Indonesian, Filipino and Thai police without determining beforehand whether they had a history of human rights violations.
The Southeast Asian police were trained by the U.S. Justice Department with State Department law enforcement assistance between 2001 and 2004 at a cost of $265.7 million, the report said.
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