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2 itemsTopic: Lubang Buaya and sexual slander ✕Theme: 1965 and its aftermath ✕Person: Saina ✕
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GA-01071 1995-10-06 Het Parool rel A

Suharto's angst voor de stem van Gerwani (over het onderzoek van Saskia Wieringa)

Suharto's fear of the voice of Gerwani (on Saskia Wieringa's research)

De Vrijdag (Het Parool, 6 Oct 1995) article by Hanneke de Wit on Saskia Wieringa's Amsterdam PhD on the Indonesian women's movement. It recounts the 1965 press claims that Gerwani girls castrated and blinded generals and danced naked, which Wieringa calls lies; autopsies showed the generals intact. It details forced 'c

GA-02891 2007 rel A

Lubang Buaya: Myth, Misogyny and Massacre (Drakeley, 2007)

Drakeley's 2007 article analysing the army's Oct-Dec 1965 psywar 'Lubang Buaya horror story' as a misogynist attack on Gerwani and a driver of the killings, tracing escalating claims in Angkatan Bersendjata, Antara and others, including the 'confessions' of Djamilah, Sujati and Saina. Core analysis of the slander.