I was oblivious to politics and to me, history classes were just regurgitation of facts and dates that were fed to us by higher ups.
They prayed at the village temples just like other Balinese men do," replied my dad. I was told in school that the communists were evil and having no religions. "Were these men atheists?" the 12-year old me asked. He later told me that then, he witnessed innocent men with communist affiliation were brought to our village cemetery to be slaughtered. My dad was a 24-year old high-school teacher in 1965 when G30S movement broke our country Indonesia. I am an Indonesian, was born in the ‘70s. The Jakarta Method demonstrates that the brutal extermination of unarmed leftists was a fundamental part of Washington's final triumph in the Cold War.
For decades, it's been believed that parts of the developing world passed peacefully into the U.S.-led capitalist system. In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins builds on his incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently declassified documents, archival research and eye-witness testimony collected across twelve countries to reveal a shocking legacy that spans the globe. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely because the CIA's secret interventions were so successful.
This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil and Chile. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. The hidden story of the wanton slaughter - in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world - backed by the United States.
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