Christopher John

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Purwokerto, Central Java—In the early afternoon, two police officers arrived at Magdalena’s family home, less than twenty-four hours after her arrival. “You’re coming with us. We need some information from you,” they told her. The entire house erupted, crying, screaming. Magdalena’s family had heard some people were arrested recently in the neighborhood, but they didn’t know she was a member of a SOBSI union in Jakarta, and neither they nor Magdalena knew that could ever be a problem in the first place. At the police station, officers began to yell at her, interrogating her. They told her they ...more
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The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
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