Asia - Voice of America: Indonesia Faces Its Murky Past

Asia - Voice of America asia

Indonesia Faces Its Murky Past Jul 25th 2012, 12:05 JAKARTA — In a landmark move, Indonesia's National Human Rights Commission said this week gross human rights violations were committed in mysterious summary executions in the 1980s and the communist purge in 1965. The findings are significant, but human rights proponents say there is reluctance to look into the country's dark past. Indonesian scholars conservatively estimate that some 500,000 suspected members of the Indonesian Communist Party were slaughtered during the 1965 coup. Others ...

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