Indonesia’s mass killings of 1965–1966 : retrospective and requiem
Joshua Oppenheimer, who brought international attention to the massacre of up to a million Indonesians in the mid-1960s through his films The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), regards his work as having “forever broken the silence on the 1965-1966 genocide.” 1 This statement i...
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| description | Joshua Oppenheimer, who brought international attention to the massacre of up to a million
Indonesians in the mid-1960s through his films The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of
Silence (2014), regards his work as having “forever broken the silence on the 1965-1966 genocide.”
1 This statement is perhaps only half-right. Discussion and debate about these mass killings have never been silent. Since the kidnapping and murder of six generals in the early
morning hours of October 1, 1965, during an abortive coup attempt that the Indonesian
Army alleged was masterminded by the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) – an event
which served as a pretext for the mass violence that swiftly followed – academics and observers,
within and outside Indonesia, have sought to uncover and explain its murky history in studies
that now span five decades. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1461542021-01-28T05:46:12Z Indonesia’s mass killings of 1965–1966 : retrospective and requiem Faizah Zakaria School of Humanities Humanities::History Indonesia Massacre Joshua Oppenheimer, who brought international attention to the massacre of up to a million Indonesians in the mid-1960s through his films The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), regards his work as having “forever broken the silence on the 1965-1966 genocide.” 1 This statement is perhaps only half-right. Discussion and debate about these mass killings have never been silent. Since the kidnapping and murder of six generals in the early morning hours of October 1, 1965, during an abortive coup attempt that the Indonesian Army alleged was masterminded by the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) – an event which served as a pretext for the mass violence that swiftly followed – academics and observers, within and outside Indonesia, have sought to uncover and explain its murky history in studies that now span five decades. 2021-01-28T05:46:12Z 2021-01-28T05:46:12Z 2018 Journal Article Faizah Zakaria (2018). Indonesia’s mass killings of 1965–1966 : retrospective and requiem. Critical Asian Studies, 50(4), 634-639. doi:10.1080/14672715.2018.1532978 1467-2715 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146154 10.1080/14672715.2018.1532978 4 50 634 639 en Critical Asian Studies © 2018 Faizah Zakaria. All rights reserved. |
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| title_full | Indonesia’s mass killings of 1965–1966 : retrospective and requiem |
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