HIST 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Reproductive Rights, Maafa, Ayahuasca
Document Summary
Legal definition of genocide comparatively to understand the holocaust and today. Forgotten events of genocide: mass killing of communists in indonesia at the height of the cold war. Period of 6 months, up to a million members of the indonesian communist party were killed and another million detained and tortured. Killed in gruesome public ways, none were armed or had committed a crime, they belonged to lawful and popular organizations. Violence stemmed from unproven allegations that their leadership had killed 6 generals, causing the army to begin campaign of violence to destroy the party. Violence rested on propaganda, portraying the members as traitors, atheists, animals, deviants. Led by general who later began president. Violence encouraged and facilitated by us and uk, provided economic and military assistance, and happy with the result. Official and unofficial discrimination after the killings. State that emerged from the carnage new order notorious for violations of human rights.
