GA-02918 2014 relevance C public
Incitement to Genocide against a Political Group: The Anti-Communist Killings in Indonesia (Pohlman, 2014)
Incitement to Genocide against a Political Group: the anti-communist killings (Pohlman, 2014)
Pohlman's 2014 article arguing the 1965-68 killings were political genocide and that the military's post-coup propaganda, including fabricated stories, constituted incitement to genocide; critiques the exclusion of political groups from the Genocide Convention.
Artikel Pohlman 2014 yang berargumen pembunuhan 1965-68 adalah genosida politik dan bahwa propaganda militer pasca-kudeta, termasuk cerita rekaan, merupakan hasutan genosida; mengkritik pengecualian kelompok politik dari Konvensi Genosida.
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- Date
- 2014
- Creator
- Pohlman
- Document type
- journal article (peer-reviewed journal article (genocide studies / international criminal law; special issue 'Stigma and Exclusion in Cross-Cultural Contexts'))
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- Australia
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- UTS ePress (PORTAL) · source link
- Access
- PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 11(1), January 2014, UTSePress, Sydney (http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal); open access; retrieved 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- Pohlman, A. (2014). Incitement to genocide against a political group: The anti-communist killings in Indonesia. PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 11(1), 1–22.
- File
- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Pohlman (2014) - Incitement to Genocide against a Political Group, The Anti-Communist Killings in Indonesia.pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.963) · 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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