Sukarno, Suharto, and the US-backed mass murder of communists in Indonesia that set the template for Cold War regime change worldwide

The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins, PublicAffairs. 3/5 stars In 1965, the Indonesian military killed as many as one million of their own country­men, destroying the third-largest communist party in the world and taking with it pretty much anyone seen as having left-wing tendencies (as well as hundreds of thousands who had nothing to do with anything). Not many people were killed in the streets or officially executed, but rather disappeared into the night. On the island of Bali, at least 5…

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