Suharto was the highest-ranking surviving Indonesian general after Sukarno's Presidential Guard murdered six of them on Sept. 30, 1965, as part of an attempted Communist coup. Suharto led a successful counter-coup the next week, then led a general purge of Communists that left about one-half million dead through Indonesa as of March 1966.
Imagine the carnage of the U.S. Civil War in a six-month span and you get the idea.
The wider point? Jim Noble, the poster you responded to, can answer if he likes.
Seldom does a people win or regain freedom without firing a shot. It simply isn't the norm in human history, sadly.