01-28-2008, 11:41 PM
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Taken from another forum.
Part of first post................. Indonesia's former dictator Suharto died yesterday. At least half a million people were killed during his 32 years in power, but he was never brought to justice.
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Let's be slightly more precise in assigning fault - he took power because the CIA backed him and for no other reason. The Indonesia coup was purely US-inspired, US-backed and US-directed.
There's four Washington Post articles from 1990 that lay out a lot of the gory detail, under the bylines of Stephen S. Rosenfeld and Kathy Kadane:
Indonesia 1965: Year of U.S. Irrelevance Stephen S. Rosenfeld; The Washington Post Jul 20, 1990; a.19;
Indonesia 1965: Year of Living Cynically? Stephen S. Rosenfeld; The Washington Post Jul 13, 1990; a.21;
Indonesia's Fight Against Communism, 1965 The Washington Post Jun 2, 1990; a.18;
U.S. Officials' Lists Aided Indonesian Bloodbath in '60s Kadane, Kathy; The Washington Post; May 21, 1990; A5;
As Bertrand Russell said the year after the coup, "in four months, five times as many people died in Indonesia as in Vietnam in twelve years", and it was a US bloodbath. Suharto was the local guy on the podium, it's people like William Colby and Henry Kissinger who bear the responsibility.
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