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The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder (Jess Melvin, 2018)
Jess Melvin's 2018 monograph arguing the 1965-66 killings were a genocide planned and coordinated by the army, based on about 3,000 pages of Aceh military records and interviews. Key evidence on army responsibility.
Monografi Jess Melvin 2018 yang berargumen pembunuhan 1965-66 adalah genosida yang direncanakan dan dikoordinasi tentara, berdasar sekitar 3.000 halaman arsip militer Aceh dan wawancara. Bukti kunci tanggung jawab tentara.
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- Date
- 2018
- Creator
- Melvin
- Document type
- book (monograph)
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- UK
- Period
- 1999–present
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- Freely viewable at source but reuse terms apply or are unrecorded: link to the source; host the file only after checking rights.
- Citation (APA)
- Melvin, J. (2018). The army and the Indonesian genocide: Mechanics of mass murder. Routledge.
- File
- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Melvin (2018) - The Army and the Indonesian Genocide.pdf
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- Good (0.935) · 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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