A Forensics Report Exhumed

An autopsy document stated that the G30S victims died of gunshot wounds in a brutal execution. But there were no indications of torture on their bodies.

October 1, 2002

The banging on the door startled the entire household in a Central Jakarta village, that gloomy afternoon of 4 October 1965. One of the residents, Lim Joe Thay, peeped out and saw a military truck parked in front of the house. The doctor and professor of forensics at the University of Indonesia (UI) medical school debated for some time with his mother. A soldier was welcomed in, and hurriedly handed over a sealed envelope.

It contained a me

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