Following a failed coup attempt on the Indonesian government by the Indonesian Communist Party in 1965, a horrific purge of Communists from the sovereign state was conducted that included the ...

The US knew people were being "delivered for slaughter" during a political purge in Indonesia ... knowledge of the Indonesian army's operations to "completely clean up" the Communist Party and ...

Even as they conferred, Defense Minister Nasution was preparing a purge of all Communists in the armed services, and there was dark talk of a sweeping decree banning the Indonesian Communist Party ...

A new documentary, Shadow Play, by the Australian award-winning filmmaker, Chris Hilton, deals with the anti-communist purges in Indonesia in 1965-66, during which up to a million Indonesians are ...

He cited 12 "regrettable" events, including an anti-communist purge at the height of the Cold War. By some estimates, the massacres killed about 500,000 people. Mr Widodo is the second Indonesian ...

six army generals were killed in an attempted coup of the Indonesian government. As a result, some 500,000 to 1 million people were killed over five months in an anti-communist purge of the ...

THE Indonesian Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) urged the US yesterday to release secret files on the 1965-66 anti-communist massacres. While the US government has ...

Gatherings of victims of Indonesia’s 1965 anti-communist purge were attacked by groups of people last week in West Sumatra and Central Java.