Indonesia's killing fields - 101 East - Al Jazeera English

Indonesia's killing fields - 101 East - Al Jazeera English

this particular documentary confirms other documentaries such as Mass Grave, 40 Years of Silence (and other works by David Lemelson), and The Act of Killing as well as feature-lenght film such as Sang Penari (The Dancer, adapted from a great novek, Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk), or works by Pramoedya Ananta Toer . but at that time, the athmosphere is to kill or to be killed (PKI also did some terrors, though, before 30 Sept 1965). and the military just made it worse and provoke religious leader (in Bali and Java) to kill million people without trials. indeed , the darkest history of Indonesia. but, there is an official findings by Human Right Committe about it, though : http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2012/08/13/indonesian-report-on-1965-violence-shines-light-on-gross-human-rights-violations/ or ini: http://www.bbc.co.uk/indonesia/berita_indonesia/2012/07/120723_pelanggaranham.shtml

interestingly, one of the first speeches of Gus Dur (Abdurrahman Wahid, former chairperson of NU) when he became President of Indonesia is to apologize to the victims, and he even tried to take out the regulation which forbid Indonesia to teach and discuss Marxism.