The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anti-Communist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anti-Communist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

Author:Vincent Bevins [Bevins, Vincent]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
Tags: Genocide & War Crimes, Southeast Asia, Asia, Intelligence & Espionage, South America, Political Science, Latin America, History
ISBN: 9781541742406
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2020-05-19T03:17:06.483238+00:00


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Around the World

Indonesia did indeed become a “quiet, compliant partner” of the United States, which explains why so many Americans today have barely heard about the country. But at the time, things were very different.

The annihilation of the world’s third-largest communist party, the fall of the founder of the Third World movement, and the rise of a fanatically anticommunist military dictatorship violently rocked Indonesia, setting off a tsunami that reached almost every corner of the globe.

In the long term, the shape of the global economy changed forever. And the scale of the anticommunist victory and ruthless efficiency of the method employed inspired extermination programs named after the Indonesian capital. But first, that giant bloody wave wrought short-term consequences as it crashed onto shores around the world.



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