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US taxpayers funded Indonesian anti-communist propaganda and genocide, post claims

Original: American taxpayers funded Indonesian anti-communist propaganda and the genocide of alleged communists, as well as the pe

A widely shared social media post alleges that American taxpayer money financed anti-communist propaganda in Indonesia, supporting the mass killings of alleged communists in the 1960s and the persecution of Chinese-Indonesians through the late 1990s. The author, writing as an Indonesian, asks what other harm US funding has caused in their homeland. Historians have long documented US political and propaganda support for the Indonesian army during the 1965-66 massacres.

Why now: Renewed interest in declassified US involvement in Indonesia's 1965-66 anti-communist killings and its decades-long consequences.

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• American taxpayers funded Indonesian anti-communist propaganda and the genocide of alleged communists, as well as the persecution of the Chinese-Indonesian population from the '60s until the late '90s. What other destruction in my homeland do American taxes fund? My Indonesian… · wrzky@kolektiva.social · 7

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