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Sexual Slander and the 1965 to 1966 Mass Killings in Indonesia (Wieringa, 2011)
Wieringa's 2011 article condensing her research: the army's sexual slander of Gerwani was the spark without which the genocide would not have happened; reconstructs the Lubang Buaya night (about 70 women and girls, mostly Pemuda Rakyat volunteers) and reads the monument mural. Programmatic synthesis.
Artikel Wieringa 2011 yang merangkum risetnya: fitnah seksual tentara terhadap Gerwani adalah pemicu tanpa mana genosida tak akan terjadi; merekonstruksi malam Lubang Buaya (sekitar 70 perempuan dan gadis, kebanyakan sukarelawan Pemuda Rakyat) dan membaca mural monumen. Sintesis programatik.
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- 2011
- Creator
- Wieringa
- Document type
- journal article (journal article)
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- English
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- Scholarship
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- secondary
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- 1999–present
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- Wieringa, S. E. (2011). Sexual slander and the 1965/66 mass killings in Indonesia: Political and methodological considerations. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 41(4), 544–565. https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2011.610613
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Wieringa (2011) - Sexual Slander and the 1965 to 1966 Mass Killings in Indonesia.pdf
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- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography
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- condensed from full annotation
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