Oh No Too Much Death

This is for my World Geography class. Hi Mrs. Glasgow.

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This is a map of Indonesia, the country where the genocide occured back in 1965-66

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The Gardian on the genocide in Indonesia...

As of 2015 it had been 50 years since the tragedy in 1965. It had also been 20 years since the fall of Sukarno’s regime in 1998

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Inside Indonesia on the genocide in Indonesia...

According to Inside Indonesia the killingss followed a coup which took place in Jakarta on the morning of October 1st 1965 in which six army generals were killed and a revolutionary council was formed, seizing power from Sukarno.

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BBC on the genocide in Indonesia...

There was a mass grave in the middle of a forrest and a thin, 70 something year old farmer by the name of Radim, had this to say about what he witnesses, “They came on carts pulled by cows... their hands were tied together with rope. They were forced to kneel, then shot in the back by the soldiers and kicked into mass graves.”

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Tribunal: Indonesia guilty of 1965 genocide

An international panel of judges has concluded that Indonesia's mass killings of 1965 were crimes against humanity, and that the United States, United Kingdom and Australia were all complicit.

Follow this link for the full cnn article

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Genocide in Indonesia (cont.)

Basically what happened ia there was a failed coup (a violent and illegal seizure of power from a government) occurred and a few military generals were killed. The president, Sukarno, blamed the coup on communists, He then gave official permission for a hunt for those responsible. This of course resulted in about 600,000 people accused of being communists to be killed.

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CNN on the genocide in Indonesia...

According to CNN Indonesia was found guilty of the mass killing that were considered crimes against humanity and the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia were all complicit in the crimes.

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We want to know the working level involvement between the US Government and the killers in 1965

Kenneth Roth

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Genocide in Indonesia

Back in 1965 about 600,000 people were killed in Indonesia because they were accused of being communist. More on this soon.

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