What's in a Name?

Singapore protested Indonesia for naming a warship after two soldiers that bombed the city-state during the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation.

February 18, 2014

Forty-five years after Usman Haji Mohamed Ali and Harun Said were buried at the Kalibata Heroes Cemetery, their legacy has become a subject of diplomatic dispute. Since Indonesia's recent announcement that it would name a warship it bought from England after the two marines, the Singaporean government has objected publicly. The Singaporeans consider the two men terrorists for their roles in the MacDonald House bombing of March 10, 1965, during the

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