Declassified files have revealed new details of U.S. government knowledge and support of an Indonesian army extermination campaign that killed several hundred thousand civilians during anti-communist hysteria in the mid-1960s. The thousands of files from the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta covering 1963-66 were made public after a declassification review that began under the Obama administration.
The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
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