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The New Order was responsible for four major crimes against humanity. | The New Order was responsible for four major crimes against humanity. | ||
* The Anti-Communist Mass Killings | * The Anti-Communist Mass Killings | ||
* The Occupation of West Papua | |||
* The Occupation of East Timor | * The Occupation of East Timor | ||
* The Petrus Killings | * The Petrus Killings | ||
=== The Anti-Communist Mass Killings === | |||
In 1965, the '30 September Movement' killed the six top generals in the country, the action was blamed on the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) although it was likely done by the army with US support. The army then began a massive killing spree so large it bordered on a civil war across the country for the next year. Between 500,000 and 3,000,000 people had been killed (0.4 to 2.8% of the population) and the CIA secretly compared it to the [[Holocaust]] and the Red Terrors in China and Russia.<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366</ref> | |||
* Killing methods included shooting, stabbing, beheadings, impaling, disemboweling, cutting off people's limbs and letting them bleed to death, strangling and castration (forced removal or disfiguring of genitals). | |||
* Killing devices included assault rifles, small arms, knives, sickles, machetes, swords, ice picks, bamboo spears, iron rods and other makeshift weapons. | |||
* Both men and women were subjected to sexual violence while in prisons, including rape and electric shocks to the genitals. | |||
* Torture methods included severe beatings with makeshift materials like electric cable and large pieces of wood, breaking fingers and crushing toes and feet under the legs of tables and chairs, pulling out fingernails, electric shocks, and burning with molten rubber or cigarettes. Detainees were sometimes forced to watch or listen to the torture of others, including relatives such as spouses or children. | |||
* Mass looting and burning down of pro-communist villages after killings. | |||
* Many of the killings had a distinctly prejudiced (notably racist) nature against Chinese, Abangans and Atheist minorities in Indonesia. | |||
=== The Petrus Killings === | === The Petrus Killings === | ||
Revision as of 14:26, 20 September 2019
The New Order was an authoritarian regime that occupied Indonesia from 1967 to 1998, it was one of the most violent and corrupt governments in history, and acted as a US-client state.
Crimes Against Humanity
The New Order was responsible for four major crimes against humanity.
- The Anti-Communist Mass Killings
- The Occupation of West Papua
- The Occupation of East Timor
- The Petrus Killings
The Anti-Communist Mass Killings
In 1965, the '30 September Movement' killed the six top generals in the country, the action was blamed on the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) although it was likely done by the army with US support. The army then began a massive killing spree so large it bordered on a civil war across the country for the next year. Between 500,000 and 3,000,000 people had been killed (0.4 to 2.8% of the population) and the CIA secretly compared it to the Holocaust and the Red Terrors in China and Russia.[1]
- Killing methods included shooting, stabbing, beheadings, impaling, disemboweling, cutting off people's limbs and letting them bleed to death, strangling and castration (forced removal or disfiguring of genitals).
- Killing devices included assault rifles, small arms, knives, sickles, machetes, swords, ice picks, bamboo spears, iron rods and other makeshift weapons.
- Both men and women were subjected to sexual violence while in prisons, including rape and electric shocks to the genitals.
- Torture methods included severe beatings with makeshift materials like electric cable and large pieces of wood, breaking fingers and crushing toes and feet under the legs of tables and chairs, pulling out fingernails, electric shocks, and burning with molten rubber or cigarettes. Detainees were sometimes forced to watch or listen to the torture of others, including relatives such as spouses or children.
- Mass looting and burning down of pro-communist villages after killings.
- Many of the killings had a distinctly prejudiced (notably racist) nature against Chinese, Abangans and Atheist minorities in Indonesia.
The Petrus Killings
From 1983 to 1985, hundreds of bodies began showing up in public places and thousands of people connected to crime began going missing. The government did not reveal the cause of death for months, until eventually confessing it was done by undercover snipers working for the Indonesian military in order to reduce crime (which was successful as the population was too scared). Between 2,000 and 10,000 people were killed by snipers.[2]