![]() ![]() officials knew most of his victims were entirely innocent. Perhaps even more striking: As the documents show, U.S. While the newly declassified documents further illustrated the horror of Indonesia’s 1965 mass murder, they also confirmed that U.S. diplomatic cables covering that dark period. This week, the non-profit National Security Archive, along with the National Declassification Center, published a batch of U.S. He then took power and ruled as dictator, with U.S. Over the months that followed, he oversaw the systematic extermination of up to a million Indonesians for affiliation with the party, or simply for being accused of harboring leftist sympathies. ![]() ![]() In Indonesia in October 1965, Suharto, a powerful Indonesian military leader, accused the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) of organizing a brutal coup attempt, following the kidnapping and murder of six high-ranking army officers. A trove of newly declassified diplomatic cables reveals a surprising degree of American involvement in a brutal anti-communist purge in Indonesia half-a-century ago. ![]()
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