Modern Era · Southeast Asia · Politics

1965

Indonesian anti-communist massacres

1965

After a murky failed coup in Jakarta, the army under General Suharto launched a campaign against suspected communists, encouraging village militias to join in. Over the next six months between five hundred thousand and a million Indonesians were killed, their bodies dumped in rivers. Suharto ruled for the next three decades.

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Before and after in Southeast Asia

Before: August 7, 1964: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
After: January 30, 1968: Tet Offensive stuns America

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1964: Mandela sent to Robben Island
After: May 16, 1966: Cultural Revolution launched

Era

Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.