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Musi River

Type
other
Country
Indonesia
Region
South Sumatra
Also written as
Musi River; Sungai Musi
Map
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2012 – 2012

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GA-02272 2012-10-01 Tempo rel C licensed

Sebuah Kamp di Tengah Sungai (Pulau Kemaro, Palembang)

Tempo, 1 October 2012: A camp in the middle of the river (Pulau Kemaro, Palembang)

Tempo report (1 Oct 2012) on Pulau Kemaro, Palembang, used as a military concentration camp in the 1960s-70s; Komnas HAM heard of about 30,000 killed or disappeared in South Sumatra. Testimony of Suwandi and Mochtar Effendy on torture, starvation and mass killing in Sept-Oct 1966 when prisoners dropped to 17. Gerwani i