The Straits Budget

Type: weekly
Country: Singapore
Orientation: mainstream/commercial
Published in: Singapore
Language: English
Description: Weekly digest edition of The Straits Times.
Also written as: Straits Budget; The Straits Budget

1965 – 1965

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The Straits Budget, 3 November 1965: Indonesian Army says wholesale slaughter of civilians in east Java

Straits Budget, 3 Nov 1965: army says wholesale slaughter of civilians in east Java

Straits Budget, 3 Nov 1965 (lead only). Reports a state of war declared in central Java, with the army saying Communists massacred civilians and Communists and Muslims fighting, citing Radio Jakarta. Typical army-sourced framing of the killings; matched on Gerwani.

GA-03344 1965-11-03 The Straits Budget rel B

Indonesian Army says wholesale slaughter of civilians in east Java

Indonesian Army says wholesale slaughter of civilians in east Java (Straits Budget, 1965)

The Straits Budget (Singapore), 3 November 1965, p. 15, UPI/Antara: the army declares a state of war in Central Java and gives figures for civilians it says communists massacred (e.g. 62 bodies in three mass graves at Banyuwangi, 104 killed), while observers note the incidents all occurred after the coup. Nothing on Ge