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2 itemsTopic: killings 1965–66 ✕Place: Boyolali ✕Source archive: Delpher (KB, Netherlands) ✕
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GA-01265 1965-11-09 Leeuwarder Courant rel A

In Midden-Java 251 doden: Vrouwen betogen tegen de PKI (251 dead in Central Java; women demonstrate against the PKI)

251 dead in Central Java; women demonstrate against the PKI

Leeuwarder Courant, 9 November 1965, p. 5: report that about 10,000 housewives, schoolgirls and actresses marched in Jakarta to the National Front office demanding dissolution of Gerwani and state control of communist-run schools, while over a million demanded the PKI's dissolution. Governor Mokhtar says 251 were kille

GA-00731 1966-04-23 De Tijd rel A

Gruwelen (Atrocities)

Atrocities: account of the generals' killing and alleged Gerwani role (duplicate record)

De Tijd article "Gruwelen" (23 Apr 1966) recounting the 1 Oct 1965 killings of the generals, claiming a hundred Gerwani women at Halim took part in torturing them with knives and razor blades after "training" including sexual orgies and blood oaths, citing a 15-year-old "Miss Djamilah" and the Djakarta Mail of 5 Nov. D