Buru
Americannoun
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Buru Island in East Indonesia was once home to 12,000 political prisoners, suspected communist sympathisers sent to toil there during the rule of President Suharto from the late 1960s.
From BBC • Dec. 26, 2015
Darsini was seven when her family moved to join her father on Buru.
From BBC • Dec. 26, 2015
AWE Ltd. and Buru Energy Ltd. are among other potential investments, he said.
From BusinessWeek • Jan. 18, 2012
The Buru Quarter was a story told in prison and later written down and smuggle out of Indonesia for publication.
From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2011
The first of them, read before the Zoological Society in January, 1863, gave some detailed information about his collection of birds brought from Buru.
From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 by Marchant, James
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