The Indonesia Massacres: The Indonesian Genocide

Genocides have been the recurring factor in history that results in the cost of millions of lives - women, men, and children. The term genocide means the deliberate and systematic extermination committed against a group - racial, cultural, religious, or national. Genocides happen to erase or destroy the existence of the specific group. Most mass executions and murders of groups of happen during genocides, whether they be through sheer chance of being in the murderous state or a targeted group. Hundreds of thousands going all the way up to even millions could be killed; and people have to go through unexplainable amount of hardships and brutal (even barbaric sometimes) torture. The Indonesia killings of 1965-66, also known as the Indonesia Massacres or Indonesia Genocide, is a genocide that took the lives of many innocent people.
The Indonesian “Communists” genocide took place from late 1965 to early 1966, in Indonesia. The majority of the genocide took place from October 1, 1965 to April or May of 1966. The
The aggressors of the genocide were the military/government under the rule of Suharto. The victims were the accused “communists” - union members, landless farmers, intellectuals, ethnic Chinese. Those who dressed in ethnic Chinese clothing, or imported from China, had been considered a communist by the government. Suharto and his regime hated the Chinese so all Chinese were automatically communist. The Pancasila military group were the main killers or death squads. Executioners like Anwar Congo carried out murders of the suspected communists. Military groups were stationed in every village to control the people; death squads were comprised of military soldiers to exterminate “communists”. During the September 30th Movement, every person who was a member of the Cabinet was either arrested or in case of 3 members, killed, on the charge of speculation of participating in the communist