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The Killing Season : A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 / Geoffrey B. Robinson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity ; 29Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (456 p.) : 20 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691196497
  • 9781400888863
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959.8035 23
LOC classification:
  • HN710.Z9 V568 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Spelling and Translation -- Abbreviations and Foreign Terms -- Maps -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Preconditions -- Chapter 3. Pretext -- Chapter 4. Cold War -- Chapter 5. Mass Killing -- Chapter 6. The Army's Role -- Chapter 7. "A Gleam of Light in Asia" -- Chapter 8. Mass Incarceration -- Chapter 9. Release, Restrict, Discipline, and Punish -- Chapter 10. Truth and Justice? -- Chapter 11. Violence, Legacies, Silence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity -- A note on the type
Summary: The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century-the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965-66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in detention.An expert in modern Indonesian history, genocide, and human rights, Geoffrey Robinson sets out to account for this violence and to end the troubling silence surrounding it. In doing so, he sheds new light on broad and enduring historical questions. How do we account for instances of systematic mass killing and detention? Why are some of these crimes remembered and punished, while others are forgotten? What are the social and political ramifications of such acts and such silence?Challenging conventional narratives of the mass violence of 1965-66 as arising spontaneously from religious and social conflicts, Robinson argues convincingly that it was instead the product of a deliberate campaign, led by the Indonesian Army. He also details the critical role played by the United States, Britain, and other major powers in facilitating mass murder and incarceration. Robinson concludes by probing the disturbing long-term consequences of the violence for millions of survivors and Indonesian society as a whole.Based on a rich body of primary and secondary sources, The Killing Season is the definitive account of a pivotal period in Indonesian history. It also makes a powerful contribution to wider debates about the dynamics and legacies of mass killing, incarceration, and genocide.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Spelling and Translation -- Abbreviations and Foreign Terms -- Maps -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Preconditions -- Chapter 3. Pretext -- Chapter 4. Cold War -- Chapter 5. Mass Killing -- Chapter 6. The Army's Role -- Chapter 7. "A Gleam of Light in Asia" -- Chapter 8. Mass Incarceration -- Chapter 9. Release, Restrict, Discipline, and Punish -- Chapter 10. Truth and Justice? -- Chapter 11. Violence, Legacies, Silence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity -- A note on the type

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The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century-the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965-66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in detention.An expert in modern Indonesian history, genocide, and human rights, Geoffrey Robinson sets out to account for this violence and to end the troubling silence surrounding it. In doing so, he sheds new light on broad and enduring historical questions. How do we account for instances of systematic mass killing and detention? Why are some of these crimes remembered and punished, while others are forgotten? What are the social and political ramifications of such acts and such silence?Challenging conventional narratives of the mass violence of 1965-66 as arising spontaneously from religious and social conflicts, Robinson argues convincingly that it was instead the product of a deliberate campaign, led by the Indonesian Army. He also details the critical role played by the United States, Britain, and other major powers in facilitating mass murder and incarceration. Robinson concludes by probing the disturbing long-term consequences of the violence for millions of survivors and Indonesian society as a whole.Based on a rich body of primary and secondary sources, The Killing Season is the definitive account of a pivotal period in Indonesian history. It also makes a powerful contribution to wider debates about the dynamics and legacies of mass killing, incarceration, and genocide.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021)