Militant Leadership Monitor – March 2025

The March 2025 issue of Militant Leadership Monitor starts off with a look at Benny Wenda, a West Papuan independence leader in Indonesia. Following the brief, there is an examination of Asif Adnan, someone with an elite background and former musician, who has reinvented himself as an Islamist author and translator with a mass following among Bangladesh’s elites. In the next article, the publication considers Abdullah Öcalan, the longtime Kurdish leader who has been the cornerstone of the recent peace agreement between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Türkiye. The publication ends with an account of Abass Dembélé, a competent and popular Malian general who has recently been arrested over fears that he might overthrow the current military regime.