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August 9, 2017 10:12 AM

Indonesia Again Silences 1965 Massacre Victims.
Last year An international panel of judges concluded that Indonesia's mass killings of 1965 were crimes against humanity, and that the United States, United Kingdom and Australia were all complicit in the crimes.
As John Pilger pointed out; in 1967 The Indonesian economy was carved up, sector by sector.

In one room, forests in another, minerals. The Freeport Company got a mountain of copper in West Papua (Henry Kissinger is currently on the board). A US/European consortium got West Papua's nickel. The giant Alcoa company got the biggest slice of Indonesia's bauxite. A group of US, Japanese and French got the tropical forests of Sumatra, West Papua and Kalimantan.

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posted by adamvasco (4 comments total)

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posted by clew at 10:22 AM on August 9, 2017

Here's the first couple of paragraphs of the main link to give people the idea:

Indonesian police and military personnel last week forced the cancellation of a public workshop on financial compensation for victims of the country’s 1965-1966 mass killings. Security forces “interrogated and intimidated” workshop organizers, claiming they lacked a permit.

The strong-arm reaction reflects a tenacious, decades-long official taboo on public discussions of the massacre as part of efforts by successive governments to absolve those responsible. That’s because in October 1965, the government gave free rein to soldiers and local militias to kill anyone they considered a “communist.” Over the next few months, at least 500,000 people were killed (the total may be as high as one million). The victims included members of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI), ethnic Chinese, trade unionists, teachers, activists, and artists.

Thanks for the post, and fuck the Indonesian government.
posted by languagehat at 2:44 PM on August 9, 2017 [6 favorites]

The government that purports to represent this American sanctioned this slaughter, and, then, ten years later, in the same part of our planet, Kissinger gave his go-ahead to massacre supposed Communists in East Timor, up to one million of them.

American exceptionalism is exceptionally brutal when it comes to wielding power abroad.
posted by kozad at 7:30 PM on August 9, 2017

> fuck the Indonesian government.

> American exceptionalism is exceptionally brutal when it comes to wielding power abroad.

Preach it, siblings!
posted by oheso at 4:30 AM on August 10, 2017