As a result of Russia's investigation of US biological research in Ukraine, similar US operations in other regions of the world are now being scrutinized more closely. Reports regarding the Pentagon conducting illegal biological research in Indonesia despite biolabs ban have resurfaced.
During April 2022, the Indonesian news site Detik published an article concerning alleged US Navy soldiers breaking Indonesian laws during the 2016 Pacific Partnership exercise in Padang, West Sumatra. According to records acquired by journalists, American military surgeons operated on 23 local patients on board the USNS Mercy hospital ship without consulting the Indonesian Ministry of Health.
Without the authorization of the Indonesian government, the ship's crew might well have covertly exported samples of blood from scores of Indonesian patients and transferred three rabid canines from West Sumatra, which is recognized as rabies endemic zone. According to Padang health officials, the Ameri...
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