A Crime of Anticommunism
A new book proves that the Indonesian army was responsible for the systematic slaughter of leftists in the 1965–66 genocide — and that orders came directly from the top.
2 Articles by: Max Lane
Max Lane has been a socialist activist in Australia for fifty years and is the author of Unfinished Nation: Indonesia Before and After Suharto and Catastrophe in Indonesia as well as the translator of the Buru Quartet novels of Pramoedya Ananta Toer.
The Country With No Left
In the mid 1960s, the Indonesian military massacred hundreds of thousands of radicals. The country’s left still hasn’t recovered.