For more than 3 months, day and night, they didn’t stop killing with machetes, shooting, or even strangling with ropes anyone suspected of being even remotely left-wing, exterminating more than 3 million people.
This is how the US distributed “democracy” during the Cold War. Communists were the main victims of the Nazi Holocaust with more than 27 million dead under the USSR alone, and they were also victims in genocides like the one in Indonesia during the postwar period.
“We committed this massacre because the US taught us to hate communists.”
A leader of the Indonesian fascist coup, who massacred 3 million people in 1965, admits that the US directed them in the killing and that their CIA bosses should have given them a trip to the US for the job they did. The anti-communist massacre in Indonesia was carried out with a hatred (cheered on by imperialism) as fierce and savage as few have ever seen in history; only the Croatian Ustaše and the Nazis come close to what the Indonesian military did during those months.
At that time, the Communist Party of Indonesia was one of the strongest parties in the world, so the US organized death squads that went house to house murdering all those suspected of being communists for more than three months, day and night The entire genocide went unpunished. Imperialism protected the anti-communist murderers and established a fascist regime to safeguard its interests in the region.
Even today, Indonesia still prohibits communism. These are the true millions of dead that they don’t teach in history class.
Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2026582103798775996#m
They also invaded East Timor in the 1970s and attempted to genocide them too
Pretty sure CIA also provided them with lists of suspected communists and others to “deal with”.
UK was just as implicated as the US:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/17/slaughter-in-indonesia-britains-secret-propaganda-war
I read this right after I hit ‘post’ on a ‘tankiejerk’ thread where I’ve been yelling at a ‘whataboutism’ nazi for a few days now and it’s making me feel a certain way
Hey! I saw this posted on a bunch of damnthatsinteresting historypics etc. Reddit communities the other day!
Except the title was: “The Communist Purge of Indonesia, where they murdered thousands of children”
That is some excellent title gore. I love how ambiguous it is. Were we being purged or doing the purging?
P.S. English is objectively the worst language.
I have to admit, I was wondering if I should permit this thread since it is unusual to see anybody categorize the Suharto régime as fascist (as atrocious as it was), and I like to limit my focus on the Axis powers since they were, by far, the least arguable examples of fascism. That being said, I like how you compared this régime to the Third Reich as well as the Ustaše (if only briefly, unlike this), and either way, Suharto’s links to the Axis are certainly in need of noting:
As with so much in Suharto’s life, the personal became political. The Dutch surrendered to [the Third Reich] in May 1940, only two weeks before Suharto joined the KNIL. The young soldier quickly climbed the ranks of the manpower-hungry colonial army, reaching sergeant by the time [that] the [Axis] conquered Java in May 1942—an unusually high position for a man of his modest origins.
But Suharto displayed no particular attachment to the Dutch. He abandoned his KNIL uniform in the face of the [Axis] invasion and soon thereafter joined the police force under a new imperial master. Although some Indonesians were galvanized by the idea of “Asia for the Asians” that undergirded Japan’s Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Suharto was once again driven by want for employment rather than loftier ideals.³
After nearly a year as a police officer, he signed up for the Homeland Defense Force (Peta), which the [Axis] established in October 1943 to mobilize the Indonesian population against a brewing Western counteroffensive in the Pacific.
(Source.)
So while I have strict criteria for what counts as fascism and not just militant anticommunism, I have decided not to remove your topic either. Were it up to me, though, I’d add a little something about Suharto’s Axis links.
Read up on Indonesian (and purportedly Aussie troops) actions in Timor. The atrocities were endless. Amy Goodman (Democracy Now) and her camera man, were forced to their knees and moments away from being executed and tossed in a ditch when a mysterious call (CIA?) to the commander saved them.
Read “The Jakarta Method”
