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Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement and Suharto's Coup d'Etat in Indonesia
John Roosa
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paperback. In the early morning hours of October 1, 1965, a group calling itself the September 30th Movement kidnapped and executed six generals of the Indonesian army, including its highest commander. The group claimed that it was attempting to preempt a coup, but it was defeated as the senior surviving general drove the movement's partisans out of Jakarta. Series: New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies. Num Pages: 328 pages, 8 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMN; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 463.
In the early morning hours of October 1, 1965, a group calling itself the September 30th Movement kidnapped and executed six generals of the Indonesian army, including its highest commander. The group claimed that it was attempting to preempt a coup, but it was quickly defeated as the senior surviving general, Haji Mohammad Suharto, drove the movement's partisans out of Jakarta. Riding the crest of mass violence, Suharto blamed the Communist Party of Indonesia for masterminding the movement and used the emergency as a pretext for gradually eroding President Sukarno's powers and installing himself as a ruler. Imprisoning and killing ... Read more
In the early morning hours of October 1, 1965, a group calling itself the September 30th Movement kidnapped and executed six generals of the Indonesian army, including its highest commander. The group claimed that it was attempting to preempt a coup, but it was quickly defeated as the senior surviving general, Haji Mohammad Suharto, drove the movement's partisans out of Jakarta. Riding the crest of mass violence, Suharto blamed the Communist Party of Indonesia for masterminding the movement and used the emergency as a pretext for gradually eroding President Sukarno's powers and installing himself as a ruler. Imprisoning and killing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299220341
SKU
V9780299220341
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About John Roosa
John Roosa is assistant professor of history at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
Reviews for Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement and Suharto's Coup d'Etat in Indonesia
This is essential reading for students of modern Indonesian history, and for anyone interested in political violence, the role of the military in politics, and U.S. foreign policy. - Geoffrey Robinson, UCLA ""Roosa takes readers into that fascinating hyper-heated political atmosphere of Sukarno's Indonesia.... His account shows how the bloody denouement of October 1965 was the sum of these tensions ... Read more