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The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder (Jess Melvin, 2018)

Jess Melvin's 2018 monograph arguing the 1965-66 killings were a genocide planned and coordinated by the army, based on about 3,000 pages of Aceh military records and interviews. Key evidence on army responsibility.

GA-02928 2018 rel B licensed

The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 (Geoffrey Robinson, 2018)

The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 (Robinson, 2018)

Geoffrey Robinson's 2018 synthesis of the 1965-66 violence (about 500,000 killed, a million detained), arguing the army provoked and organised it, the US and allies facilitated it, and colonial and Cold War history set the preconditions. Context; Gerwani in the propaganda chapters.