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Certainly not on the same scale but Suharto tactics continued well past 1965. In _1991_, Suharto's troops commanded an attack on peaceful demonstrators who wer
by DoingIsLearning 6y ago
Certainly not on the same scale but Suharto tactics continued well past 1965.
In _1991_, Suharto's troops commanded an attack on peaceful demonstrators who were protesting the killing of a man, Sebastiao Gomes, at point blank range inside a church. Some of these demonstrators ran away into a cemetery and where trapped taking cover from bullets behind gravestones. At least 250 People were confirmed dead in this massacre at Santa Cruz cemetery. [0] Literally exterminated like sitting ducks.
If it wasn't for the massacre footage from people like Max Stahl and other journalists it is likely that by now most of Timór Lorosa'e would have been slowly replaced out of existence.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_massacre