The Indonesian Genocide 1965-1966 was an anti-communist attack, tat lead to the overthrown president Kusno Sokarno being replaced by Suharto who was an army general. Killings followed a coup that took place on October 1, 1965, in Jakarta. This coup killed six army generals, and it formed a revolutionary council, seizing power from Sukarno. General Suharto was elected as President, filling in for Sukarno. Suharto led the genocide that killed about 1 million people, and left 100,000 people imprisoned without trial. The Indonesian military had targeted the Indonesian communist party (PKI),which had over five hundred thousand members in 1965, and which were supporters of president Kusno Sukarno in the 1959 election. Some religious groups and political enemies targeted the PKI. Government officials that were against the
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The attack on the communist went from shooting them to using propaganda to show how unequal the communists were to other human beings. The other governmental powers have given more than one billion in military supplies from U.S., Australia, and Great Britain.The Western media had not covered the events in the Indonesian genocide. The government dumped the bodies in caves and shallow graves and had to identify them because they were government officials.The genocide had lasted for six months from October 1965 - March 1966. The Partai Komunis Indonesia genocide had changed the Indonesian population by one two thirds, and all with US other external weapons. “In spite of occasional flashes of truth in the press, the real U.S. involvement in the 1965 coup is one of the best-kept secrets in Washington. Official statements on the coup and its aftermath are practically nonexistent. Somewhat more is known of the 1958 attempt to overthrow the Sukarno government in which the CIA was
The attack on the communist went from shooting them to using propaganda to show how unequal the communists were to other human beings. The other governmental powers have given more than one billion in military supplies from U.S., Australia, and Great Britain.The Western media had not covered the events in the Indonesian genocide. The government dumped the bodies in caves and shallow graves and had to identify them because they were government officials.The genocide had lasted for six months from October 1965 - March 1966. The Partai Komunis Indonesia genocide had changed the Indonesian population by one two thirds, and all with US other external weapons. “In spite of occasional flashes of truth in the press, the real U.S. involvement in the 1965 coup is one of the best-kept secrets in Washington. Official statements on the coup and its aftermath are practically nonexistent. Somewhat more is known of the 1958 attempt to overthrow the Sukarno government in which the CIA was