The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder (Rethinking Southeast Asia)
By Jess Melvin.
Description
For the past half century, the Indonesian military has depicted the 1965-66 killings, which resulted in the murder of approximately one million unarmed civilians, as the outcome of a spontaneous uprising. This formulation not only denied military agency behind the killings, it also denied that the killings could ever be understood as a centralised, nation-wide campaign. Using documents from the former Indonesian Intelligence Agency’s archives in Banda Aceh this book shatters the Indonesian government’s official propaganda account of the mass killings and proves the military&rsqu...
ISBN(s)
1138347973, 9781138347977
