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Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement and Suharto's Coup d'Etat in Indonesia

Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement and Suharto's Coup d'Etat in Indonesia

Roosa, John

Paperback

Series: New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies

General World HistorySoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 0299220346
ISBN13: 9780299220341
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Aug 3 2006
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.20 Depth: 8.88
Language: English

In the early morning hours of October 1, 1965, a group calling itself the September 30th Movement kidnapped and executed six generals of the Indonesian army, including its highest commander. The group claimed that it was attempting to preempt a coup, but it was quickly defeated as the senior surviving general, Haji Mohammad Suharto, drove the movement's partisans out of Jakarta. Riding the crest of mass violence, Suharto blamed the Communist Party of Indonesia for masterminding the movement and used the emergency as a pretext for gradually eroding President Sukarno's powers and installing himself as a ruler. Imprisoning and killing hundreds of thousands of alleged communists over the next year, Suharto remade the events of October 1, 1965 into the central event of modern Indonesian history and the cornerstone of his thirty-two-year dictatorship.

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