Joshua Oppenheimer Won’t Go Back to Indonesia
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/magazine/joshua-oppenheimer-wont-go-back-to-indonesia.html
There is an extraordinary clip in ‘‘Silence’’ from a 1967 NBC News broadcast in which Indonesia is described as being ‘‘more beautiful without Communists.’’ How much responsibility do you think the West has for the #genocide?
A great deal. The United States provided the special radio system so the Army could coordinate the killings over the vast archipelago. A man named Bob Martens, who worked at the United States Embassy in Jakarta, was compiling lists of thousands of names of Indonesian public figures who might be opposed to the new regime and handed these lists over to the Indonesian government.