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The U.S. also withheld credible information which contradicted the Indonesian Army's version of events regarding the abortive coup by junior officers on 30 September 1965, which triggered the killings. On 21 December 1965, the Embassy's first secretary, Mary Vance Trent, sent a cable to the State Department which provided an estimate of 100,000 ...
Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66: 1965 October – 1966 March Throughout Indonesia: 500,000–1,000,000+ Massacre of the members of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) and alleged communist sympathizers in revenge for the 30 September Movement. East Timor genocide: 1975–1999 East Timor (then under Indonesian occupation as the East ...
Agents of the USG, including its embassy and CIA, have stated that there was no direct involvement in the 1965 Indonesian purge of Communists. Scholars have disputed this claim, citing documentary evidence that the US covertly undermined the Sukarno regime and fomented the killings of communists and those branded as communists. [35] [36] [37] [38]
Indonesian mass killings of 1965–1966 (3 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Massacres committed by Indonesia" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
The Look of Silence (Indonesian: Senyap, "Silence") is a 2014 internationally co-produced documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer about the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66. The film is a companion piece [3] to his 2012 documentary The Act of Killing. Executive producers were Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, and Andre Singer. [4]
The Communist Party of Indonesia (Indonesian: Partai Komunis Indonesia, PKI) was a communist party in the Dutch East Indies and later Indonesia. It was the largest non-ruling communist party in the world before its violent disbandment in 1965 .
By late 1965, the army was divided between a left-wing faction allied with the PKI and a right-wing faction that was being courted by the United States. [8] In need of Indonesian allies in its Cold War against the Soviet Union, the United States cultivated a number of ties with officers of the military through exchanges and arms deals.
Indonesian mass killings of 1965–1966 (3 C, 8 P) Massacres of the Indonesian National Revolution (7 P) M. Massacres in the Dutch East Indies (1 C, 6 P)