The army and the Indonesian genocide : mechanics of mass murder / Jess Melvin.
The army and the Indonesian genocide : mechanics of mass murder / Jess Melvin.
The army and the Indonesian genocide : mechanics of mass murder / Jess Melvin.
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
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G 2018/4473
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English
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xxv, 319 pages ; 25 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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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 196...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
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England
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2018.
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"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...
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The army and the Indonesian genocide : mechanics of mass murder / Jess Melvin.
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Rethinking Southeast Asia ; 15
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/4473
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74VKVkO5w4eX
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9781138574694 hardcover
1138574694 hardcover
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959.8035
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991024181111502626
