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The Forgotten Massacres
de Jong, Alex
http://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/06/indonesian-communist-party-suharto-massacre-purge/Date Written: 2015-06-02 Publisher: Jacobin Year Published: 2015 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX17518 Fifty years ago, in 1965, hundreds of thousands of Indonesian communists were slaughtered -- all with the support of the US. For decades, this version of the mass killings of 1965–66 has been reinforced by state propaganda and parroted by Western experts who saw the "spontaneous" eruption in murderous violence as confirmation of pre-existing racist ideas about fanatical and irrational "orientals." Subject Headings |