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{{Short description|American journalist}}
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* ''East Timor's Unfinished Struggle'' (1999)
* ''Our Kind of Guys'' (1999)
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* [[Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award]] (1993)
* [[List of George Polk Award winners|George Polk Award]] (1994)
* [[James Aronson Award]] (1994)
* [[Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage]] (1994)
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'''Allan Nairn''' (born 1956) is an American [[investigative journalism|investigative journalist]]. He was imprisoned by [[Indonesia]]n military forces under United States-backed strongman [[Suharto]] while reporting in [[East Timor]]. His writings have focused on [[U.S. foreign policy]] in such countries as [[Haiti]], [[Guatemala]], Indonesia, and East Timor.


== Biography and career ==
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'''Allan Nairn''' (born [[1956]]) is a [[left-wing politics|left-wing]] [[United States|U.S.]] investigative [[journalist]]. His writings have focused on U.S. foreign policy in such countries as [[Haiti]], [[Guatemala]], [[Indonesia]], and [[East Timor]].
Nairn was born in [[Morristown, New Jersey]] to a [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] mother. In high school, he got a job with consumer activist [[Ralph Nader]], working for him for six years. His book ''The Reign of ETS: the Corporation That Makes up Minds'', an investigation of the [[SAT I]] exam and its creators, the [[Educational Testing Service]], was printed as part of the [[Ralph Nader]] report in 1980.


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In 1980 Nairn visited [[Guatemala]] in the middle of a campaign of assassination against student leaders amidst a chaotic [[counterinsurgency]] campaign against [[Marxism|Marxist]] guerrillas active in both [[urban area|urban]] and [[rural]] areas. He interviewed United States corporate executives there, who endorsed the [[death squad]]s, and he decided to further investigate death squad activities in that country and in [[El Salvador]], also in the throes of civil war. Subsequently, Nairn became interested in East Timor and helped found the [[East Timor and Indonesia Action Network|East Timor Action Network]] (ETAN), which was instrumental in bringing the independence movement in East Timor to international attention.
Nairn was born in [[Mobile, Alabama]] to a [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] mother. In high school, he got a job with [[Ralph Nader]] and worked for him for six years.


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On November 12, 1991, covering developments in East Timor, Nairn and fellow journalist [[Amy Goodman]] were badly beaten by Indonesian soldiers after they witnessed a [[Mass murder|mass killing]] of Timorese demonstrators in what became known as the [[Santa Cruz Massacre]]. He was beaten with the butts of [[M16 (rifle)|M16 rifles]] and had his skull fractured in the melee.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/14/santa_cruz_massacre_270_east_timorese |title=East Timor Massacre Remembered: U.S.-Armed Indonesian Troops Kill 270 Timorese 20 Years Ago|publisher=Democracy Now!|access-date=2013-04-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/28/massacre_the_story_of_east_timor |title=Massacre: The Story of East Timor|publisher=Democracy Now!|access-date=2013-04-24}}</ref> Nairn was declared a "threat to national security" and banned from East Timor, but he re-entered several times illegally, and his subsequent reports helped convince the [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] to cut off military aid to [[Jakarta]] in 1993. In a dispatch from East Timor on March 30, 1998, Nairn disclosed the continuing [[U.S. military]] training of Indonesian troops implicated in the [[torture]] and killing of civilians. In 1999, Nairn was detained briefly by the [[Military of Indonesia|Indonesian Army]] in East Timor, where he had chosen to remain after most other media had evacuated following [[East Timorese independence referendum, 1999|East Timor's independence referendum]].
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In [[1980]], Nairn visited Guatemala, in the middle of a campaign of assassination against student leaders amidst a chaotic counterinsurgency campaign against [[Marxism|Marxist]] guerrillas active in both [[urban]] and [[rural]] areas. He interviewed U.S. corporate executives there, who endorsed the [[death squad]]s, and he decided to further investigate the activities of the latter in that country and [[El Salvador]].


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In an article published in ''[[The Nation (U.S. periodical)|The Nation]]'' in 1994 Nairn revealed the [[U.S. government]]'s role in establishing and funding the Haitian paramilitary, [[Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti]] (FRAPH) which was involved in human rights abuses.
Subsequently, Nairn became interested in East Timor and helped found the East Timor Action Network (ETAN), which was instrumental in bringing the independence movement in East Timor to international attention.


On March 24, 2010, it was revealed that Nairn could be facing possible detention and criminal charges in Indonesia for revealing Indonesian military assassinations of civilian activists. An [[Indonesian Military]] spokesperson told the ''[[Jakarta Globe]]'' that the military is considering legal actions against Nairn's publication.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/24/exclusivejournalist_allan_nairn_facing_possible_arrest|title=Exclusive... Journalist Allan Nairn Facing Possible Arrest in Indonesia for Exposing US-Backed Forces Assassinated Civilians|date=March 24, 2010|work=Democracy Now!|access-date=8 September 2013}}</ref>
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In [[1991]], covering developments in East Timor, Nairn and fellow journalist [[Amy Goodman]] were badly beaten by Indonesian soldiers after they witnessed a mass killing of Timorese demonstrators in what became known as the [[Dili Massacre]]. He was beaten with the butts of [[M-16]] rifles and had his skull fractured in the melee. Nairn was declared a "threat to national security" and banned from East Timor, but he re-entered several times illegally, and his subsequent reports helped convince the [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] to cut off military aid to Jakarta in 1993. In a dispatch from in East Timor on March 30, 1998, Nairn disclosed the continuing U.S. military training of Indonesian troops implicated in the torture and killing of civilians. In 1999, Nairn was detained briefly by the Indonesian Army.


In June 2013 Nairn and numerous other celebrities appeared in a video showing support for [[Chelsea Manning]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/celebrity-bradley-manning-video-93041.html#ixzz2WgfpNmys|title=Celeb video 'I am Bradley Manning'|author=Patrick Gavin|date=2013-06-19|work=[[Politico.com]]|access-date=8 September 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFFkcCh-pCc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/UFFkcCh-pCc| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=I am Bradley Manning (full HD)|publisher=I am Bradley Manning |via=[[YouTube]] |access-date=8 September 2013}}</ref>
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In an article published in ''[[The Nation]]'' in 1994, Nairn revealed the US government's role in establishing and funding the Haitian paramilitary death squad, [[FRAPH]] (the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti).


A June 27, 2014 report indicated that Nairn had been threatened with arrest for revealing the role of Indonesian presidential candidate [[Prabowo Subianto]] in human rights abuses.<ref>{{Cite web
==Quote==
| title = Journalist Allan Nairn Threatened for Exposing Indonesian Pres. Candidate's Role in Mass Killings
* ''"The United States has no monopoly on the abuse of power. But since I am an American this is where I have some influence and responsibility."'' [http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/09/17/nairn/index1.html]
| work = Democracy Now!
| access-date = 2014-07-04
| date = 2014-06-27
| url = http://www.democracynow.org/2014/6/27/journalist_allan_nairn_threatened_for_exposing
}}</ref>


On April 19, 2017, the [[The Intercept|Intercept]] published an exposé researched and written by Nairn warning that a cadre of Indonesian military officers had joined forces with an ISIS-affiliated "[[Front Pembela Islam|vigilante street movement]]" in order to unseat President [[Joko Widodo]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Nairn|first1=Allan|title=Trump's Indonesian Allies In Bed With ISIS-Backed Militia Seeking to Oust Elected President|url=https://theintercept.com/2017/04/18/trumps-indonesian-allies-in-bed-with-isis-backed-militia-seeking-to-oust-elected-president/|access-date=20 July 2017|work=The Intercept|publisher=First Look Media|date=19 April 2017}}</ref>
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==External links==
*[http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Foreign_Policy/AllanNairn_page.html Allan Nairn page] (Linnks to various articles by Nairn)
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*[http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=19990927&s=nairn "US Complicity in Timor"] (''The Nation'', September 27, 1999)
*[http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/east_timor/evidence/nairn.html "Witness to the Santa Cruz Massacre"] (excerpt from Nair's testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on February 17, 1992 regarding the Dili massacre)
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*[http://www.theharbinger.org/xviii/000425/nairn.html Interview with Allan Nairn] (Mobile, Alabama, April 25, 2000)
*[http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/june95arnove.htm Interview With Allan Nairn] (''Z Magazine'', June 1995)


== Awards ==
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In 1993 Nairn and [[Amy Goodman]] received the [[Robert F. Kennedy]] Memorial First Prize for International Radio award for their reporting on East Timor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rfkmemorial.org/legacyinaction/1993/ |title=Robert F Kennedy Memorial |access-date=2007-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927040958/http://www.rfkmemorial.org/legacyinaction/1993 |archive-date=2007-09-27 }}</ref> In 1994, Nairn won the [[George Polk Award]] for Journalism for Magazine Reporting.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/polk/prev/prev90.html |title=The George Polk Awards for Journalism |access-date=2007-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090322060554/http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/polk/prev/prev90.html |archive-date=2009-03-22 }}</ref> Also in 1994, Nairn received the [[James Aronson Award]] for Social Justice Journalism for his writing on [[Haiti]] for ''The Nation'' magazine. He was a recipient of the 1994 [[Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage]].<ref>[http://callawayawards.org/past-winners/ Joe A. Callaway Awards For Civic Courage Past-Winners], ''Calloway Awards'', 2019. Retrieved November 11, 2019.</ref>
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.allannairn.org/ Website/blog]
** [https://twitter.com/AllanNairn14 Twitter account]
* {{IMDb name|id=4507548}}
* [http://www.thenation.com/authors/allan-nairn Allan Nairn's articles] at [[The Nation]]
* [http://www.democracynow.org/2016/1/8/18_ex_military_guatemalan_leaders_arrested "18 Ex-Military Guatemalan Leaders Arrested for Crimes against Humanity During U.S.-Backed Dirty War"] ([[Democracy Now]], January 8, 2016)
* [http://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/19/exclusive_allan_nairn_exposes_role_of "Exclusive: Allan Nairn Exposes Role of U.S. and New Guatemalan President in Indigenous Massacres"] ([[Democracy Now]], April 19, 2013)
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* [http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=19990927&s=nairn "U.S. Complicity in Timor"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050417063523/http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=19990927&s=nairn |date=2005-04-17 }} (''The Nation'', September 27, 1999)
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* [http://www.theharbinger.org/xviii/000425/nairn.html Interview with Allan Nairn] (Mobile, Alabama, April 25, 2000)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100329174330/http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/6960 "A discussion of the Guatemalan and the CIA"] interview on [[Charlie Rose|Charlie Rose (talk show)]] with Elliott Abrams, Robert Torricelli and Allan Nairn, March 31, 1995 (video).
* [http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/6/obama_has_kept_the_machine_set Interview on Democracy Now] (Jan. 6, 2010)
* [http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/19/exclusiveindonesian_forces_tapped_by_obama_for Exclusive... Indonesian Forces Tapped by Obama for Renewed US Aid Implicated in New Assassinations] A phone interview with Allan Nairn on [[Democracy Now]] (March 19, 2010)
* [http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/24/exclusivejournalist_allan_nairn_facing_possible_arrest Exclusive... Journalist Allan Nairn Facing Possible Arrest in Indonesia for Exposing US-Backed Forces Assassinated Civilians] A phone interview with Allan Nairn on [[Democracy Now]] (March 24, 2010)
* [http://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/29/allan_nairn_as_us_loses_its Allan Nairn: U.S. Comparative Advantage is in Killing, And It's Using It"] - video report by ''[[Democracy Now!]]''
* [http://etan.org/news/2012/01nairn.htm Journalist/Activist Allan Nairn speaks on East Timor, Indonesia, East Timor Action Network, Occupy Wall Street and more] - video from January 2012 talks for ETAN and OccupyWallStreet ThinkTank
* [https://www.truthdig.com/videos/the-american-empire-murder-inc/ The American Empire: Murder Inc.] [[Chris Hedges]] interviews Allan Nairn for ''[[Truthdig]]'' (January 3, 2016).
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Latest revision as of 21:13, 8 January 2024

Allan Nairn
Born1956 (age 67–68)
Morristown, New Jersey, United States
NationalityAmerican
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • Reporter
  • Author
Notable work
  • East Timor's Unfinished Struggle (1999)
  • Our Kind of Guys (1999)
Awards
Websiteallannairn.org

Allan Nairn (born 1956) is an American investigative journalist. He was imprisoned by Indonesian military forces under United States-backed strongman Suharto while reporting in East Timor. His writings have focused on U.S. foreign policy in such countries as Haiti, Guatemala, Indonesia, and East Timor.

Biography and career

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Nairn was born in Morristown, New Jersey to a Puerto Rican mother. In high school, he got a job with consumer activist Ralph Nader, working for him for six years. His book The Reign of ETS: the Corporation That Makes up Minds, an investigation of the SAT I exam and its creators, the Educational Testing Service, was printed as part of the Ralph Nader report in 1980.

In 1980 Nairn visited Guatemala in the middle of a campaign of assassination against student leaders amidst a chaotic counterinsurgency campaign against Marxist guerrillas active in both urban and rural areas. He interviewed United States corporate executives there, who endorsed the death squads, and he decided to further investigate death squad activities in that country and in El Salvador, also in the throes of civil war. Subsequently, Nairn became interested in East Timor and helped found the East Timor Action Network (ETAN), which was instrumental in bringing the independence movement in East Timor to international attention.

On November 12, 1991, covering developments in East Timor, Nairn and fellow journalist Amy Goodman were badly beaten by Indonesian soldiers after they witnessed a mass killing of Timorese demonstrators in what became known as the Santa Cruz Massacre. He was beaten with the butts of M16 rifles and had his skull fractured in the melee.[1][2] Nairn was declared a "threat to national security" and banned from East Timor, but he re-entered several times illegally, and his subsequent reports helped convince the U.S. Congress to cut off military aid to Jakarta in 1993. In a dispatch from East Timor on March 30, 1998, Nairn disclosed the continuing U.S. military training of Indonesian troops implicated in the torture and killing of civilians. In 1999, Nairn was detained briefly by the Indonesian Army in East Timor, where he had chosen to remain after most other media had evacuated following East Timor's independence referendum.

In an article published in The Nation in 1994 Nairn revealed the U.S. government's role in establishing and funding the Haitian paramilitary, Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti (FRAPH) which was involved in human rights abuses.

On March 24, 2010, it was revealed that Nairn could be facing possible detention and criminal charges in Indonesia for revealing Indonesian military assassinations of civilian activists. An Indonesian Military spokesperson told the Jakarta Globe that the military is considering legal actions against Nairn's publication.[3]

In June 2013 Nairn and numerous other celebrities appeared in a video showing support for Chelsea Manning.[4][5]

A June 27, 2014 report indicated that Nairn had been threatened with arrest for revealing the role of Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto in human rights abuses.[6]

On April 19, 2017, the Intercept published an exposé researched and written by Nairn warning that a cadre of Indonesian military officers had joined forces with an ISIS-affiliated "vigilante street movement" in order to unseat President Joko Widodo.[7]

Awards

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In 1993 Nairn and Amy Goodman received the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial First Prize for International Radio award for their reporting on East Timor.[8] In 1994, Nairn won the George Polk Award for Journalism for Magazine Reporting.[9] Also in 1994, Nairn received the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for his writing on Haiti for The Nation magazine. He was a recipient of the 1994 Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage.[10]

References

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  1. ^ "East Timor Massacre Remembered: U.S.-Armed Indonesian Troops Kill 270 Timorese 20 Years Ago". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 2013-04-24.
  2. ^ "Massacre: The Story of East Timor". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 2013-04-24.
  3. ^ "Exclusive... Journalist Allan Nairn Facing Possible Arrest in Indonesia for Exposing US-Backed Forces Assassinated Civilians". Democracy Now!. March 24, 2010. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  4. ^ Patrick Gavin (2013-06-19). "Celeb video 'I am Bradley Manning'". Politico.com. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  5. ^ I am Bradley Manning (full HD). I am Bradley Manning. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12. Retrieved 8 September 2013 – via YouTube.
  6. ^ "Journalist Allan Nairn Threatened for Exposing Indonesian Pres. Candidate's Role in Mass Killings". Democracy Now!. 2014-06-27. Retrieved 2014-07-04.
  7. ^ Nairn, Allan (19 April 2017). "Trump's Indonesian Allies In Bed With ISIS-Backed Militia Seeking to Oust Elected President". The Intercept. First Look Media. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  8. ^ "Robert F Kennedy Memorial". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-05-24.
  9. ^ "The George Polk Awards for Journalism". Archived from the original on 2009-03-22. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
  10. ^ Joe A. Callaway Awards For Civic Courage Past-Winners, Calloway Awards, 2019. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
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