Killing Season - A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66Pevná vazba
Killing Season - A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66Pevná vazba The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration…
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Killing Season - A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66Pevná vazba
The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century--the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965-66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in detention.An expert in modern Indonesian history, genocide, and human rights, Geoffrey Robinson sets out to account for this violence and to end the troubling silence surrounding it. How do we account for instances of systematic mass killing and detention? In doing so, he sheds new light on broad and enduring historical questions.
What are the social and political ramifications of such acts and such silence?Challenging conventional narratives of the mass violence of 1965-66 as arising Why are some of these crimes remembered and punished, while others are forgotten?