[list_indonesia] [ppiindia] INDONESIA 1965-Second greatest crime of the century
- From: "widyapati" <widyapati@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 04:55:38 -0000
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what is the truth? is is out there? or hasn't found yet?
http://www.workers.org/indonesia/chap1.html
CH 1 - The Bloodbath
Between October 1, 1965, and April or May of the following year, the
right-wing military regime of Generals Nasution and Suharto seized
power and consolidated its strength in Indonesia. In that scant seven
months as many as a million people were slaughtered. The rising toll
of victims appeared occasionally in the press here, recorded with
little more passion than a sports score.
Some accounts of the appalling massacres did in time find their way
into the papers of London and New York. Their tone was fatalistic,
implying that the unbelievable carnage described was the product of a
bloodlust and disregard for human life inconceivable to "civilized"
Westerners. There was no sense of urgency about these reports, as
though nothing could be done to stem the gory tide.
No member of Parliament or Congress rose to condemn the butchery. No
relief or rescue agencies attempted to intervene on behalf of the
political prisoners. Only a few isolated voices in the West tried to
raise an outcry in the face of such awful silence.
Over four years later [in 1970], several hundred thousand political
prisoners still rot in jail. There have been repeated purges of the
armed forces and the civil service. The fascist military regime is
debating whether or not to carry out mass executions, claiming it no
longer can afford to feed the mass of prisoners.
American capital is moving into Indonesia once again to explore
offshore areas for oil, reactivate existing wells, and mine copper in
West Irian. Properties nationalized under President Sukarno have been
returned to their U.S. and European former owners.
Indonesia seems to be right back where it was before World War II,
before the rising nationalist movement swept out the Dutch and the
3,000 separate islands of the Netherlands East Indies united in the
new and militant Republic of Indonesia. How did it happen? And what
really happened?
There is a standard phrase that appears in all the Western news
accounts. It is "the attempted Communist coup." The massacre of
hundreds of thousands of civilians was justified, so this official
account goes, as a reaction to an attempted coup by the Communists on
September 30, when six right-wing army generals were killed.
THE STRANGE "ATTEMPTED COMMUNIST COUP"
The dictionary defines the words "coup d'etat" as the sudden, forceful
overthrow of the government; literally it means a blow against the
state. Since the events
continue? open http://www.workers.org/indonesia/chap1.html
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