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 thousands of files from the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta covering 1963-66 were made public after a declassification review that began under the Obama administration.
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…)
Just 500,000? Jakarta Method details it happening in the millions
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…)