New Light through an Old Window
A new book takes a fresh look at the 1965-66 mass killings in Indonesia.
August 25, 2009
‘Constructive Bloodbath’ in Indonesia The United States, Britain and the Mass Killings of 1965-66
Author: Nathaniel Mehr, with foreword by Carmel Budiarjo
Publisher: Spokesman Books (UK)
THE noted dissident American intellectual Noam Chomsky coined the phrase ‘constructive bloodbath’ to describe the mass killings that went on in Indonesia in 1965-66. Why ‘constructive’, many people will want to know. Constructive for whom?
Chomsky
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