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1965 Tribunal Hearings: The Indictment (IPT 1965 Prosecution, 2015)

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IPT 1965 prosecution indictment (posted 28 Oct 2015) charging the Indonesian state under Suharto with crimes against humanity and the US, UK and Australia with complicity; the preamble cites hate propaganda painting the PKI as 'hyper-sexual' and sexual violence.

Dakwaan jaksa IPT 1965 (diunggah 28 Okt 2015) yang mendakwa negara Indonesia di bawah Suharto atas kejahatan terhadap kemanusiaan dan AS, Inggris, Australia atas keterlibatan; pembukaannya menyebut propaganda kebencian yang menggambarkan PKI 'hiperseksual' dan kekerasan seksual.

People

Suharto

Organisations

International People's Tribunal 1965Communist Party of Indonesia

Places

The HagueIndonesia

Events

International People's Tribunal 1965

Topics

memory, testimony and justicekillings 1965–66Lubang Buaya and sexual slanderpropaganda and mediaUSA and UK

Tags

sexual slanderimpunity

Details

Date
2015
Creator
IPT 1965 Prosecution
Document type
web article (legal document: indictment of a people's tribunal (nine counts of crimes against humanity), web text)
Language
English
Perspective
Journalism/commentary (post-1998)
Source role
primary
Country
Netherlands
Period
1999–present
Source archive
tribunal1965.org · source link
Access
IPT 1965 website (tribunal1965.org), English page '1965 Tribunal Hearings: The Indictment', posted 28 October 2015, https://www.tribunal1965.org/en/indictment-1965-tribunal/. Open access; retrieved 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
Citation (APA)
Prosecution of the International People's Tribunal on 1965 Crimes against Humanity in Indonesia. (2015, October 28). 1965 Tribunal hearings: The indictment [Indictment of the State of Indonesia, and of the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia]. Tribunal 1965. https://www.tribunal1965.org/en/indictment-1965-tribunal/
File
01 Primary Sources/1.8 Testimonies, Memoirs and Human Rights Reports/IPT 1965 Prosecution (2015) - 1965 Tribunal Hearings, The Indictment (web text).txt
OCR / text
Good (0.97) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.8 Testimonies, Memoirs and Human Rights Reports
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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