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Media Magelang - The article published in the Guardian (“Slaughter in Indonesia: Britain’s secret propaganda war”, October 17, 2021) on the role of the British Foreign Office in Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, provided evidence on the involvement of external factors in the ignition of the tragedy.
foreign, the Foreign Office’s cold war propaganda arm, was responsible for the release of publications that incited the mass murder of more than half a million of Indonesian citizens.
This evidence debunked the claim of the U.S. Government that foreign parties had no or little influence on the massacre, and only Indonesian should be held responsible.
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The mass killings followed the failed coup d’état by the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), then the biggest communist party in the non-communist world, which tried to seize power by abducting and executing six of Indonesia's top military generals. The mass killings themselves are viewed as retaliation, targeting those who are related to PKI.
Previously, the U.S. Government claimed that the massacre was the result of the perturbation of political powers in Indonesia, in which foreign parties had no or little influence, and it is often concluded that the brutality of the Indonesian and the involvement of military and religious groups were the factors behind the mass killings.
This view was reflected in the news released by the western media during that period, where they emphasized the role of civilians in the massacre, portraying them as orientalist stereotypes that are primitive and violent. For example, A New York Times journalist wrote an article entitled "When a Nation Runs Amok" proposing that the massacre was not surprising at all as it took place in “violent Asia, where life is cheap”.
However, declassified British Foreign Office documents - kept unreleased far beyond the rule of 20 years - showed that Britain played a role in instigating the tragedy, and debunked those claims by western media.
