Just 500,000? Jakarta Method details it happening in the millions
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Yeah that's a must read, these look like new documents, so just further evidence of the crimes.
Probably 500,000~ communists (and then maybe another 500,000~ non-communist ethnic Chinese-Indonesians, and another 500,000~ or so of an assortment of various indigenous ethnic groups (Javanese Abangan, Balinese, etc. looking it up) who fell afoul of the military-Islamist junta, and of course any labor-affiliated elements , and any disliked groups- the wiki mentions feminists (such as the 1.5 million strong Gerwani organization dissolved due to the coup) and atheists among the victims as well.
The wiki page mentions the CIA basically sending hit lists to the army during the killings, but I know I've read before about the documented actions of western corporations as well (which were also, predictably, doing exactly the same- sending hitlists of union members, of "roadblocks" to corporate exploitation like, say, dissenting villages and communities, etc...)
At this point are there any genocides that the US isn't either complicit in or an influence for?
It is even behind most fictitious genocides
They started locally in North America then expanded globally. The US is the McDonald's of genocide.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Declassified files have revealed new details of U.S. government knowledge and support of an Indonesian army extermination campaign that killed several hundred thousand civilians during anti-communist hysteria in the mid-1960s.
The files fill out the picture of a devastating reign of terror by the Indonesian army and Muslim groups that has been sketched by historians and in a U.S. State Department volume that was declassified in 2001 despite a last-minute CIA effort to block its distribution.
A Dec. 21, 1965, cable from the embassy’s first secretary, Mary Vance Trent, to the State Department referred to events as a “fantastic switch which has occurred over 10 short weeks.” It also included an estimate that 100,000 people had been slaughtered.
The release of the documents coincides with an upsurge in anti-communist rhetoric in Indonesia, where communism remains a frequently invoked boogeyman for conservatives despite the collapse of the Soviet Union nearly three decades ago and China’s embrace of global capitalism.
A detailed four-page report covering mid- to late November 1965 by the U.S. Embassy’s political affairs officer, Edward E. Masters, discussed the spread of mass executions to several provinces and the role of youth groups in helping to solve the “main problem” of where to house and what to feed PKI prisoners.
Possibly the earliest mention of systematic bloodshed in cables to Washington is a mid-October 1965 record of conversations between the embassy’s second secretary and Bujung Nasution, a special assistant to Indonesia’s attorney general involved with intelligence matters.
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