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Copying my comment from the other highly similar submission: Hmm, not a fan of how they completely a) minimise the terror perpetrated on civilians by Indonesi
by EdwardDiego 5y ago
Copying my comment from the other highly similar submission:
Hmm, not a fan of how they completely
a) minimise the terror perpetrated on civilians by Indonesian infiltrators during Sukarno's Konfrontasi
b) deny the Indonesians' agency, it's rather colonial to think that the anti-communist purges were predicated on British agitprop, when in reality the military and Islamists were highly fearful of PKI, especially when Sukarno wanted to arm them as an almost Red Guard style militia.
I mean, I know it's The Guardian, but they're normally better than this.