The Straits Times, 7 November 1965: Suicide squad women crushed by army tanks

Suicide squad women crushed by army tanks WORLD ROUND-UP JAKARTA, Saturday. A “SUICIDE SQUAD” of Communist women were killed when they tried to block the path of army tanks in the streets of a Central Java town, an army bulletin said today. It said nine “suicide members” of Gerwani, the Communist women’s organisation, stood in the path of the tanks in the town of Solo. They were “gently asked to leave the streets” to give Way to the tanks, but they jeered a the paratroops and turned their backs. The troops tried 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. -THE SO | SILENT CHINESE PEKING, Sat. — Russians and foreign visitors were the only people who clapped when a delegation leader made a speech at a rally here last night ‘o mark the anniversary of the Russian Revolution. | More than 1.500 Chinese re-