The killing season : a history of the Indonesian massacres, 1965-66
Robinson, Geoffrey, 1957-2018
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This volume explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the 20th century - the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965-66, leaving some 500,000 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. In doing so, he sheds new light on broad and enduring historical questions. How do we account for instances of systematic mass killing and detention? Why are some of these crimes remembered and punished, while others are forgotten? What are the social and political ramifications of such acts and such silence?
Main title:
The killing season : a history of the Indonesian massacres, 1965-66 / Geoffrey B. Robinson.
Author:
Robinson, Geoffrey, 1957-, author
Imprint:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]©2018
Collation:
xx, 429 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 25 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780691161389 (hbk)
Dewey class:
959.8035
LC class:
DS644.32
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2223039
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