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Truth Will Out: Indonesian Accounts of the 1965 Mass Violence (Baskara T. Wardaya, ed., 2013)
Truth Will Out: Indonesian Accounts of the 1965 Mass Violence (Wardaya, ed., 2013)
Wardaya's 2013 English edition of oral histories gathered 2008-11 by Sanata Dharma University's PUSdEP: witnesses from military, Muhammadiyah, Kejawen and Catholic backgrounds and survivors including women detained as alleged Gerwani; foreword summarises the Gerwani mutilation narrative and autopsy. Oral history source.
Edisi bahasa Inggris Wardaya 2013 sejarah lisan yang dihimpun 2008-11 oleh PUSdEP Universitas Sanata Dharma: saksi dari latar militer, Muhammadiyah, Kejawen dan Katolik serta penyintas termasuk perempuan yang ditahan sebagai dugaan Gerwani; kata pengantar merangkum narasi mutilasi Gerwani dan autopsi. Sumber sejarah lisan.
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- Date
- 2013
- Creator
- Wardaya
- Document type
- book (edited volume of oral history testimonies (English translation))
- Language
- English; Indonesian
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- Australia
- 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)
- Wardaya, B. T. (Ed.). (2013). Truth will out: Indonesian accounts of the 1965 mass violence (J. Lindsay, Trans.). Monash University Publishing. (Original work published 2011)
- File
- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Wardaya (2013) - Truth Will Out.pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.965) · 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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