Politics.be - documentaire over de anti-communistische genocide in Indonesië beroert de maatschappi

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2...835221273.html

A new documentary in Indonesia is reviving memories of one of the country's most violent periods.

The film, "Act of Killing", features members of 1960s death squads, who admit killing people they thought were communists.

The massacres began in October 1965, in the weeks following the coup attempt, and reached their peak over the remainder of the year before subsiding in the early months of 1966. They started in the capital, Jakarta, and spread to Central and East Java and, later, Bali. Thousands of local vigilantes and army units killed actual and alleged PKI members. Although killings occurred across Indonesia, the worst were in the PKI strongholds of Central Java, East Java, Bali, and northern Sumatra. It is possible that over one million people were imprisoned at one time or another.

Methods of killing included shooting and beheading with Japanese-style samurai swords. Corpses were often thrown into rivers, and at one point officials complained to the Army that the rivers running into the city of Surabaya were clogged with bodies. In areas such as Kediri in East Java, Nahdlatul Ulama youth wing (Ansor) members lined up Communists, cut their throats and disposed of the bodies in rivers.[24] The killings left whole sections of villages empty, and the houses of victims or the interned were looted and often handed over to the military.[23]

Local Chinese were killed in some areas, and their properties looted and burned as a result of anti-Chinese racism on the excuse that Aidit had brought the PKI closer to China.[23] In the predominantly Christian islands of Nusa Tenggara, Christian clergy and teachers suffered at the hands of Muslim youth.[17]

A 2012 documentary by Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing, places the number of deaths between between 1 and 3 million people.[47][48]

The US government was reportedly involved in providing targeted names to the Indonesian Army, approved by high-ranking officials.[64] This account was denied by the US government, including the Central Intelligence Agency.[65] However, Bradley Simpson, Director of the Indonesia/East Timor Documentation Project at the National Security Archive claims that "the United States was directly involved to the extent that they provided the Indonesian Armed Forces with assistance that they introduced to help facilitate the mass killings."[67]

US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara informed President Johnson that military assistance programs to Indonesia, especially during the Sukarno era, had "contributed significantly to the Army's pro-US orientation and encouraged it to move against the PKI when the opportunity was presented."[68] Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt commented in The New York Times "With 500,000 to a million communist sympathisers knocked off...I think it's safe to assume a reorientation has taken place."[69]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indones...5%E2%80%931966

Een tot 3 miljoen mensen werden afgeslacht en hun lichamen in de rivier gegooid. De VS waren direct betrokken bij deze moordpartij tegen ongewapende families. Toch wordt hier, in tegenstelling tot de moorden door de Khmer Rouge, zelden of nooit over gesproken in onze geschiedenislessen of in de media.