The Killing Season
The Killing Season The definitive account of one of the twentieth century's most brutal, yet least examined, episodes of genocide and detentionThe Killing Season explores one of the largest and…
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The Killing Season
The definitive account of one of the twentieth century's most brutal, yet least examined, episodes of genocide and detentionThe 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. In doing so, he sheds new light on broad, enduring historical questions. 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.
Why are some of these crimes remembered and punished, while others are forgotten? How do we account for instances of systematic mass killing and detention? Based on a rich body of primary and