I would like to comment on Five Decades of Triumph and Defeat (April 30). It said: “Its history can be traced, to 1951, when Lt. Col. (Inf.) Slamet Riyadi was experiencing difficulty crushing the separatist movement in the Republic of South Moluccas (RMS).”

The truth is Lt. Col. Slamet Riyadi had already passed away in the extermination operation of the RMS movement on November 4 1950 (read: Ramadhan K.H., A.E. Kawilarang, Untuk Sang