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> because the US was now friends with China against the Soviet Union The US also got the anti-communist genocide and friendly dictator it desired in Indonesia,

by l3mure 3y ago

> because the US was now friends with China against the Soviet Union The US also got the anti-communist genocide and friendly dictator it desired in Indonesia, which was considered a major win for its interests in the region.

FreshStart 3y ago
It was mostly anti-Han resentment of the empires citizens and collaborators that last conquered them. The average citizen is very unidrologic during a genocide, mostly in it for discrimination - revenge or profit.
- l3mure 3y ago
  > mostly anti-Han resentment Lying. [1] > An estimate is that around 2,000 Chinese Indonesians were killed (out of a total estimated death toll of between 500,000 and 3 million people), with documented massacres taking place in Makassar, Medan and Lombok island. [...] Ethnic Balinese and Javanese made up the vast majority of people who were massacred. --- > the average citizen Killings were primarily directed by the army, which did so with an explicitly anti-communist bent facilitated by the US. [2] > With very few exceptions, the killings were not spontaneous but carried out with a high degree of organisation. Most of the victims were also detainees of the Indonesian Army, making the killings summary executions. > Despite a consensus at the highest levels of the U.S. and British governments that it would be necessary "to liquidate Sukarno", as related in a CIA memorandum from 1962, and the existence of extensive contacts between anti-communist army officers and the U.S. military establishment – training of over 1,200 officers, "including senior military figures", and providing weapons and economic assistance – the CIA denied active involvement in the killings. Declassified U.S. documents in 2017 revealed that the U.S. government had detailed knowledge of the mass killings from the beginning and was supportive of the actions of the Indonesian Army. U.S. complicity in the killings, which included providing extensive lists of PKI officials to Indonesian death squads, has previously been established by historians and journalists. [1][2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_19...

by l3mure 3y ago

FreshStart 3y ago

It was mostly anti-Han resentment of the empires citizens and collaborators that last conquered them. The average citizen is very unidrologic during a genocide, mostly in it for discrimination - revenge or profit.

l3mure 3y ago
> mostly anti-Han resentment Lying. [1] > An estimate is that around 2,000 Chinese Indonesians were killed (out of a total estimated death toll of between 500,000 and 3 million people), with documented massacres taking place in Makassar, Medan and Lombok island. [...] Ethnic Balinese and Javanese made up the vast majority of people who were massacred. --- > the average citizen Killings were primarily directed by the army, which did so with an explicitly anti-communist bent facilitated by the US. [2] > With very few exceptions, the killings were not spontaneous but carried out with a high degree of organisation. Most of the victims were also detainees of the Indonesian Army, making the killings summary executions. > Despite a consensus at the highest levels of the U.S. and British governments that it would be necessary "to liquidate Sukarno", as related in a CIA memorandum from 1962, and the existence of extensive contacts between anti-communist army officers and the U.S. military establishment – training of over 1,200 officers, "including senior military figures", and providing weapons and economic assistance – the CIA denied active involvement in the killings. Declassified U.S. documents in 2017 revealed that the U.S. government had detailed knowledge of the mass killings from the beginning and was supportive of the actions of the Indonesian Army. U.S. complicity in the killings, which included providing extensive lists of PKI officials to Indonesian death squads, has previously been established by historians and journalists. [1][2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_19...