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2 itemsTopic: arrests and detention ✕Place: Java ✕Source archive: ProQuest Historical Newspapers ✕
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GA-01534 1965-10-11 The Scotsman rel A licensed

Mass arrests in Indonesia: 3500 Communists detained during round-up (The Scotsman, 11 Oktober 1965)

Mass arrests in Indonesia: 3,500 Communists detained during round-up (The Scotsman, 11 October 1965)

The Scotsman, 11 Oct 1965 (Djakarta, Sunday): mass arrests of Communists after the reported discovery of arms and a radio transmitter at burned PKI headquarters, with detainees put at 3,500 including rebels in Java. Among those arrested are Gerwani members alleged to have tortured the six generals whose mutilated bodie

GA-02337 1975-11-04 Daily World rel C licensed

PKI leader dies in Nusakambangan camp, 100,000 political prisoners

Daily World, 4 November 1975: PKI leader dies in Nusakambangan camp; 100,000 political prisoners

Daily World, 4 Nov 1975, p. 10: among short news items, a report that Zain Nasution, 50, PKI central committee member and former secretary of its foreign affairs commission, died on 3 October 1975 in Nusakambangan camp after ten years' imprisonment. The PKI estimates at least 100,000 political prisoners face 'slow deat