Indonesia’s ‘Red scare’ revived ahead of elections
Picture taken on January 8, 2019 shows Indonesian officials with the ‘communism-related’ books seized after a raid on a book store, in Padang, West Sumatra province in Indonesia. Such raids have revived the spectre of the 1960s ‘Red scare’ that saw about 3 million people massacred for their leftist beliefs. – AFP pic, March 17, 2019.
BOOKSELLER Yanto Tjahaja was tending to his shop when soldiers burst through the door and confiscated a dozen titles over claims they violated one of Indonesia’s most sensitive taboos: communism. Upwards of half a million leftists were massacred across the Southeast Asian nation in the mid-1960s, a bloody spectacle that ushered in the long rule of dictator Suharto, whose fervent anti-communist stance remains decades on.
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