The Look of Silence: Important documentary on the aftermath of the 1965 Indonesia massacres - World Socialist Web Site
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The Look of Silence: Important documentary on the aftermath of the 1965 Indonesia massacres
By Clara Weiss
6 March 2017
Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer
The streaming provider Netflix is currently featuring The Look of Silence, a 2014 documentary by the Academy Award-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, 2012).
The Look of Silence
In a profoundly moving, intimate and disturbing way, The Look of Silence deals with the long-lasting and devastating impact the mass murder of up to one million Communists and suspected Communists in 1965-66 has had on Indonesian society.
Following a US-backed coup that overthrew the bourgeois-nationalist regime of Sukarno in the fall of 1965, the Indonesian army, mobilizing gangster and lumpen elements, exterminated vast numbers of people who were members or supporters of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) within half a year. About a quarter million people were put in concentration camps, where many lingered for over a decade.