The author fingers the Indonesian army for organizing the genocide. Geoffrey Robinson draws on recently declassified documents, firsthand interviews and a trove of primary resources to relate the catalysts, events and players behind the killings. Robinson, Princeton University Press, N.J., 2018, $35Īlthough one of the most horrifying episodes of the 20th century, the 1965–66 genocide of upward of a half-million Indonesians by that island nation’s army and associated death squads remains largely overlooked in comparison to similar atrocities-perhaps due to the victims’ communist ties. The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965–66, by Geoffrey B.
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