The Straits Times, 13 January 1971: Day woman gouged general's eyes with a knife

=== [PDF page 1] === ‘Day woman gouged yes.’ ote knife JAKARTA, Tues. — A young woman told a special court here that she gouged the eyes of an army general with a knife before he was shot dead on the eve of an abortive communist coup in 1965. She also testified last night that she saw her friends mutilating the sexual organs of another genera!. It was the most detailed description of such atrocities publicly aired in Indonesia. Emmy Marjam. 24. was a witness in the trial of Sukatno, former chairman of the communist youth organisation Pemuda. on charges of complicity in the coup and rebelling against the Government after the attempted takeover. === [PDF page 2] === wanil now under arrest, said she was pald one million (old PEE.s 238 rals were shot she helped dump their bodies into a deep unused well at She was taken to the crocodile hole on Sept. 26 for training and to take part in a big feast which ended with dances and singmen’s organisation Gering, Marjam said. === [PDF page 3] === Coup denial Another witness Prajitno, a member of the Jakarta branch of the Communist Party. told the court he Day. He was ordered to mobilise his men to join an action to be launched on Oct. 1 to foll the planned coup a | —— he said. The has officially denied that it planned to stage a against Dr. Sookarno tha that day. It said the concentration of