What started as an anti-Communist purge turned into an ethnic cleansing exercise against Indonesian ethnic Chinese, who were wealthier and occupied the merchant class, who were feared of being close to Communist China.
It wasn’t battlefield fighting. It was a lot of arrests and a mass murder. It’s a little bit flawed logic to commit a mass murder to prevent a communist murder.
No matter what the motives, anyone who arrests and murders someone based on their politics is no good. Thank god for the 2nd amendment.
And this is the Indonesia that produced Obama.
Wasn’t a lot of the killing in Cambodia in the so-called killing fields targeted toward ethnic Chinese?