Research Catalog

Title

The army and the Indonesian genocide : mechanics of mass murder / Jess Melvin.

Author

Melvin, Jess

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xxv, 319 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"For the past half century, the Indonesian military has depicted the 1965-66 killings, which resulted in the murder of approximately one million unarmed civilians, as the outcome of a spontaneous uprising. This formulation not only denied military agency behind the killings, it also denied that the killings could ever be understood as a centralised, nation-wide campaign. Using documents from the former Indonesian Intelligence Agency's archives in Banda Aceh, this book shatters the Indonesian government's official propaganda account of the mass killings and proves the military's agency behind those events. This book tells the story of the 3,000 pages of top-secret documents that comprise the Indonesian genocide files. Drawing upon these orders and records, along with the previously unheard stories of 70 survivors, perpetrators, and other eyewitness of the genocide in Aceh Province it reconstructs, for the first time, a detailed narrative of the killings using the military's own accounts of these events. This book makes the case that the 1965-66 killings can be understood as a case of genocide, as defined by the 1948 Genocide Convention"--

Series Statement

• Rethinking Southeast Asia ; 15
• Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Uniform Title

• Rethinking Southeast Asia ; 15.
• Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Subjects

• Genocide
• Political atrocities
• 1965
• Indonesia > History > Coup d'état, 1965
• Indonesia > Armed Forces > Political activity
• Coup d'état (Indonesia : 1965)
• Genocide > Indonesia > Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam
• Political atrocities > Indonesia > Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam
• Armed Forces > Political activity
• Indonesia > Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam
• History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : the Indonesian genocide files -- Why genocide? -- The struggle for the Indonesian state -- The order to annihilate, 1-6 October 1965 -- Djuarsa's co-ordination tour, 1-11 October 1965 -- Pogrom and public killings, 7 October-November 1965 -- Killing to destroy, 14 October-December 1965 -- Consolidation of the new regime : anti-Chinese violence, January-August 1966, and the purge of Aceh's civil service, October 1965-March 1967 -- Conclusion : anatomy of a genocide.

Call Number

JFE 18-2456

ISBN

• 9781138574694
• 1138574694

LCCN

2017047047

OCLC

993653161

Author

Melvin, Jess, author.

Title

The army and the Indonesian genocide : mechanics of mass murder / Jess Melvin.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Rethinking Southeast Asia ; 15

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Rethinking Southeast Asia ; 15.

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1965

Research Call Number

JFE 18-2456