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The Act Of Killing - Review, Robert Cribb Mar 2014

The Act Of Killing - Review, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

Critically reviews Joshua Oppenheimer's celebrated film The Act of Killing. Suggests that the film appears to have been staged in sigificant places and that it gives a misleading impression of the character of the 1965-66 killings, especially by downplaying the role of the military in order to emphasise the psychopathic character of Anwar Congo and his friends.

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Genocide In Indonesia, 1965-1966, Robert Cribb Jan 2010

Genocide In Indonesia, 1965-1966, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

No abstract provided.

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A Genocide That Never Was: Explaining The Myth Of Anti-Chinese Massacres In Indonesia, 1965–66, Robert Cribb Jan 2009

A Genocide That Never Was: Explaining The Myth Of Anti-Chinese Massacres In Indonesia, 1965–66, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

Many publications refer incorrectly to extensive massacres of Chinese in Indonesia in 1965–66. Approximately half a million people were killed in this period, but the victims wereoverwhelmingly members and associates of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). Chinese Indonesians experienced serious harassment but relatively few were killed. The persistence of this myth is attributed to a trope dating back to the seventeenth century which equates the social position of Chinese in Indonesia with that of Jews in Europe and which thus predicts periodic pogroms and attempts at genocide. The myth has survived partly because it inspires a sense of urgency in …

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Unresolved Problems In The Indonesian Killings Of 1965-1966, Robert Cribb Jun 2002

Unresolved Problems In The Indonesian Killings Of 1965-1966, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

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How Many Deaths? Problems In The Statistics Of Massacre In Indonesia (1965-1966) And East Timor (1975-1980), Robert Cribb Dec 2000

How Many Deaths? Problems In The Statistics Of Massacre In Indonesia (1965-1966) And East Timor (1975-1980), Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

The chapter critically examines the scanty evidence for the number of people to die in the massacres carried out by the Indonesian army in Indonesia during the suppression of the Indonesian Communist Party in 1965-66 and in East Timor duting the first five years after the indonesian invasion and occupation (1975-80). The chapter concludes that the death toll in Indonesia lay between 200,000 and 800,000, with a figure of 500,000 the current most plausible estimate. It concludes that the common estmate of 200,000 deaths by violence in East Timor is likely to be a significant exaggeration and that the likely …

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From Petrus To Ninja: Death Squads In Indonesia, Robert Cribb Dec 1999

From Petrus To Ninja: Death Squads In Indonesia, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

Discusses the so-called petrus killings by death squads in Indonesia in 1983-83 and makes comparisons with the stories of killings by 'ninja' around the time of Suharto's fall from power in 1998.

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The Indonesian Killings Of 1965-1966: Studies From Java And Bali, Robert Cribb Jan 1991