'Suicide squad' of communist women killed (South China Sunday Post-Herald, 7 November 1965)

=== [PDF page 1] === ‘Suicide squad' of communist women killed: Djakarta, Nov. 6 South China Sunday Post - Herald (1950-1972); Nov 7, 1965; ProQuest pg. 30 when’ they tried to: block the. path: of army tanks: in the | streets of “a: Central: Java. town, the. Indonesian Armed Forces. bulletin -announced, |: ae CT See ies “The. bulletin said nine’ “suicide “nist: Women’s: Organisation) had. “stood in the ‘path of. the tanks. in | the town’ of Solo, =): They “had. been’ “gently. ‘asked. ; ‘to leave the’ streets” to-give. way tothe tanks, but:had jeered’.at the paratroops and turned their The troops attempted to move the women by.‘ firing warning | shots, the bulletin said. Then, “seeing these stubborn “women, the troops were forced | to end their (the - women’s) | lives,” ‘the bulletin added. as did not, say how the women. “Drive ‘continues White. the, hideout ‘ot the In-' donesian. -. Communist’: Party “Chairman, Mr.D. N. Aidit, was | sealed in by Government troops 4in Central Java, the army condown on the party., Antara: sald that at Tjilatjap, in Central Java,:on October 30. some... 200 people - suspected. of involvement in the coup movement had been arrested. Communist: Party branches In the * area‘had voluntarily “dis- Solved" themselves.: _. ‘Four. matilated corpses, apparently. victims of the coup, had - heen found. inva river, Antara reported ‘that a rally ot 250,000 Moslems at Tasikmalaya in West Java had set up a “holy war.command”. to crush the coup movement.— Reuter. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.