General Sukendro's German Trip
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
THE five members of the Die Linke faction of Germany's legislature could not contain their curiosity. The democratic socialist legislators sent Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) a letter. In it, they questioned that institution's involvement in the events of September 30, 1965, in Indonesia, in the total destruction of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), as well as in Sukarno's ousting from the presidency.
The politicians, who included Andrej Hunko, Jan van Aken, and Sevim Dagdelen, acted after German media had reported their government was involved in the bloody events in Indonesia in 1965. German media also reported on a planned international court trial at The Hague in the Netherlands this October concerning the 1965 events.
THE five members of the Die Linke faction of Germany's legislature could not contain their curiosity. The democratic socialist legislators sent Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) a letter. In it, they questioned that institution's involvement in the events of September 30, 1965, in Indonesia, in the total destruction of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), as well as in Sukarno's ousting from the presidency.
The politicians, who included An
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