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Genocide in Indonesia: Anti-Communism, US Aid and Millions Dead w/ Dr. Clinton Fernandes (G&R 438)
It's the 60th anniversary of the failed coup in Indonesia, the rise of the dictator Suharto and the removal of popular leader Sukarno.
The events that followed the coup led to a period mass killings across the archipelago nation. It's estimated that anywhere between 500,000-3 million people, mostly members of the PKI (the Indonesian Communist Party), were killed. Besides the mass murder of PKI members and anyone else identified as an opponent to the regime, Suharto's forces carried out an erasure of the history and culture of the opposition.
Since the fall of Suharto in 1998, declassified…
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