Suharto dead.

[nino_savatte]

And another
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/ford_and_kissinger.htm

I know there are some articles about his massacre of over 1m people, all of whom were written off as "communists".

 

[fela fan]

and as such it doesn't suprise me that you've removed such a shockingly ignorant comment from your system -not one little bit.

Oh really butchersapron. You appear to be rather a sad man having such explicit memories about some person a couple of continents away from you. I'm shockingly ignorant am i?? How funny.

You're welcome to your own vicious small world. Now go and fuck with someone else. Seems it's all your good for on this website. Sad man.

 

[fela fan]

can anyone find an article on him now he has died that mentions the west's complicit role in aiding and abetting his killing?

John Pilger compiled rather a lot of information on the man. But that was in his books, dunno about on the net.

 

[butchersapron]

Here's Blum on 1965

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/Indonesia65_KH.html

 

[Barking_Mad]

John Pilger compiled rather a lot of information on the man. But that was in his books, dunno about on the net.

Yeah he did, I meant mainstream articles. Most of them conspicuously lack anything about the roles of other governments.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Yeah he did, I meant mainstream articles. Most of them conspicuously lack anything about the roles of other governments.

Not least our own, which was kind enough to supply that shitbag Suharto with lots of nice high-tech weapons with which to repress and massacre his people.

 

[fela fan]

Not least our own, which was kind enough to supply that shitbag Suharto with lots of nice high-tech weapons with which to repress and massacre his people.

The australians were well complicit too.

 

[ViolentPanda]

The australians were well complicit too.

Later, and for very different reasons, monetary rather than ideological (not that it excuses anything).

 

[fela fan]

Later, and for very different reasons, monetary rather than ideological (not that it excuses anything).

Yes. I was thinking about east timor, and the gas they wanted. And there was something about a couple of australian investigative photographers that got shot dead by indonesian forces in cold blood.

 

[dennisr]

Here's Blum on 1965

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/Indonesia65_KH.html

Here's a history of the PKI and the wiping out of its membership:

http://www.socialistpartyaustralia.org/archives/2008/01/31/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-pki/#more-1289

"Within four months between half a million and a million people ... were slaughtered. The culmination of the PKI’s two-stage theory of revolution was vicious counter-revolution with no stages!

But what was most incredible about the whole situation was that the PKI, the third largest Communist Party in the world with 20 million supporters, was wiped out virtually without resistance. As Rex Mortimer explains, “A dispersed and shattered leadership seems to have lost all capacity to rally the party or cope with the decimation of its ranks. Sticking to the last to the hope that Sukarno would pull their irons out of the fire, the leaders went into hiding and became to all intents and purposes, deactivated."

 

[nino_savatte]

More

U.S. officials understood at the outset that Indonesia would never allow West Irian to become independent and that it was unlikely to ever allow a meaningful act of self-determination to take place. The Johnson and Nixon administrations were equally reluctant to challenge Indonesian control over West Irian, especially after the conservative anti-Communist regime of General Suharto took over in 1966 following an abortive coup attempt which led to the slaughter of an estimated 500,000 alleged Communists. Suharto quickly moved to liberalize the Indonesian economy and open it to the West, passing a new foreign investment law in late 1967. The first company to take advantage of the law was the American mining company Freeport Sulphur, which gained concessions to vast tracts of land in West Irian containing gold and copper reserves. (Note 2)

Over six weeks from July to August 1969, U.N. officials conducted the so-called "Act of Free Choice." Under the articles of the New York Agreement (Article 18) all adult Papuans had the right to participate in an act of self-determination to be carried out in accordance with international practice. Instead, Indonesian authorities selected 1022 West Papuans to vote publicly and unanimously in favor of integration with Indonesia.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB128/index.htm

 

[urbanrevolt]

Indeed. Some estimates are more than a million dead in that year and of course several more million in other years. The pity is not only that there was no jusitce but his family and his kind are still raking it in.

I visited Indonesia twice, for about 3 months in total, and got to talk about politics quite frequently (I spent several weeks in one location and got to know people well). Once people had learned to trust me we had long discussions, one lasting till dawn with reminiscences about the '66 days.

 

[Mallard]

Good riddance

 

[urbanrevolt]

Definbtely but it would have been better as a result of a successful revolution against the bastard and his kind.