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Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965-1966 in Indonesia (John Roosa, 2020)
Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965-1966 in Indonesia (Roosa, 2020)
John Roosa's 2020 book, from nearly 400 interviews, arguing the typical 1965-66 killing was army execution of detainees (hence mass disappearance); dissects army propaganda including how Gen. Sugandhi sexualised Lubang Buaya from 9 Oct 1965. Key scholarship.
Buku John Roosa 2020, dari hampir 400 wawancara, yang berargumen bentuk khas pembunuhan 1965-66 adalah eksekusi tahanan oleh tentara (maka juga penghilangan massal); membedah propaganda tentara termasuk bagaimana Brigjen Sugandhi menyeksualkan Lubang Buaya sejak 9 Okt 1965. Kajian kunci.
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- Date
- 2020
- Creator
- Roosa
- Document type
- book (monograph (university press, Critical Human Rights series))
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- USA
- 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)
- Roosa, J. (2020). Buried histories: The anticommunist massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia. University of Wisconsin Press.
- File
- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Roosa (2020) - Buried Histories.pdf
- OCR / text
- 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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