![]() The version in school textbooks still adhere to the line propagated by the autocratic leader Suharto who initiated the purge and who was forced to step down 15 years ago.Īt least 500,000 people are thought to have died in the rampaging violence that started in late 1965 after then-general Suharto and the military took power following an abortive communist coup. It touches on the darkest period of Indonesia’s already violent early years as an independent state and which even after almost half a century is so raw a memory that it remains largely brushed from mainstream debate. The nearly three-hour “Act of Killing” centres on one of the killers in Indonesia’s bloody purge of what was then the biggest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union, as he re-enacts for the camera, with no apparent sign of remorse, the way nearly 50 years earlier he had dispatched his victims by strangling them with a loop of wire. If it does win, don’t expect the Indonesian co-director to go on stage to receive an Oscar: he’s worried for his life. ![]() JAKARTA/MADIUN, Indonesia, Feb 28 (Reuters) - A chilling documentary about one of the worst massacres since World War Two is up for an Academy Award this weekend.
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