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To: John123
And how many MORE would have died if Indonesia was under communist control? Those numbers pale with the 1/3 of the total population of Cambodia that was killed under Pol Pot's communist regime or under Stalin's iron control...

I think "up to a million" is pretty damned bad. If that's the best you can do.....

FWIW, I had a friend in college who is Indonesian of Chinese descent. He remembers being hidden under the floorboards of his house several times, when his parents thought Suharto's thugs were coming.

They were lucky enough to be quite wealthy, and survived because they lived in a walled compound, and had a well-armed private army to protect them.

A hell of a lot of other folks weren't so lucky. They weren't communists, but they were Chinese.

42 posted on 01/28/2008 8:09:14 AM PST by r9etb
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To: r9etb
A hell of a lot of other folks weren't so lucky. They weren't communists, but they were Chinese.

Forgive me for my ignorance, but why was Suharto targeting the ethnic Chinese? Were they grouped with the Communists?

44 posted on 01/28/2008 9:58:11 AM PST by John123 ("What good fortune for the governments that the people do not think" -- Adolf Hitler)
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