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The End of Silence: Accounts of the 1965 Genocide in Indonesia (Soe Tjen Marching, 2025 edition)
The End of Silence: Accounts of the 1965 Genocide in Indonesia (Soe Tjen Marching, 2025 ed.)
Soe Tjen Marching's collection (Amsterdam UP 2017; Routledge 2025) of twenty survivor and descendant testimonies organised by generation, including 'Steel Women', and introducing the 'mutation of fear'. Summarises the 1965 slander of Gerwani; key testimony source.
Kumpulan Soe Tjen Marching (Amsterdam UP 2017; Routledge 2025) berisi dua puluh kesaksian penyintas dan keturunan menurut generasi, termasuk 'Perempuan Baja', dan memperkenalkan 'mutasi ketakutan'. Merangkum fitnah 1965 terhadap Gerwani; sumber kesaksian kunci.
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- Date
- 2025
- Creator
- Marching
- Document type
- book (collection of oral history testimonies with authorial introduction and epilogue (monograph))
- Language
- English; Indonesian
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- UK
- Period
- 1999–present
- Access
- Freely viewable at source but reuse terms apply or are unrecorded: link to the source; host the file only after checking rights.
- Citation (APA)
- Marching, S. T. (2025). The end of silence: Accounts of the 1965 genocide in Indonesia (A. Nicholls, Photographer). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462983908 (Original work published 2017)
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Marching (2025) - The End of Silence.pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.952) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography
- Summary basis
- condensed from full annotation
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