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To: Seizethecarp
That happened in the Huk War ~ back in the 1950s ~ this is later and involved a move by the Moslems in Indonesia to gain enough political power to kick the Chinese aside economically ~ hence the mass murders.

Remember, always, the overseas Chinese community is still more economically powerful than the crowd in Big China ~ and they have their own interests. The Russians are hardly in the same league. Sure, they got nukes but who they gonna' aim them at

51 posted on 03/07/2013 3:07:51 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

No. It was an anti-communist massacre which the KGB would have been eager to recover from, IMO:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366

The Indonesian killings of 1965–1966 were an anti-communist purge following a failed coup in Indonesia. The most widely accepted estimates are that more than 500,000 people were killed. The purge was a pivotal event in the transition to the “New Order”; the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) was eliminated as a political force, and the upheavals led to the downfall of president Sukarno and the commencement of Suharto’s thirty-year presidency.

The failed coup released pent-up communal hatreds which were fanned by the Indonesian Army, which quickly blamed the PKI. Communists were purged from political, social, and military life, and the PKI itself was banned. The massacres began in October 1965, in the weeks following the coup attempt, and reached their peak over the remainder of the year before subsiding in the early months of 1966. They started in the capital, Jakarta, and spread to Central and East Java and, later, Bali. Thousands of local vigilantes and army units killed actual and alleged PKI members. Although killings occurred across Indonesia, the worst were in the PKI strongholds of Central Java, East Java, Bali, and northern Sumatra. It is possible that over one million people were imprisoned at one time or another.


65 posted on 03/07/2013 5:41:31 PM PST by Seizethecarp (Defend aircraft from "runway kill zone" mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
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