The Indonesian Massacre: What Did the US Know?

[Toramana]

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/nov/02/indonesian-massacre-what-did-us-know/

President Barack Obama has several things in common with Joko Widodo, the president of Indonesia, whom he welcomed to the Oval Office last week. The two men are the exact same age, and Widodo, whom everyone calls Jokowi, looks like a shorter and skinnier version of Obama. They also share something else: a personal connection to one of the worst massacres anywhere since World War II. In the late 1960s, Obama lived in Jakarta with his mother, in the years just after the killings of hundreds of thousands of suspected Indonesian Communists, a carefully orchestrated purge that brought the US-backed New Order regime to power; Jokowi grew up in poverty in Central Java, near a river that was filled with corpses in 1965.
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[Bengal_Tiger]

Salamoona Toramana Lala,

Good to see you back on the forum!



Re topic:

1. Obama's mother was living in far away geo-strategic Indonesia in the 1960s before the advent of mass travel and also regular migration, temporary & permanent settlement.

She is regarded by some as a US intelligence operative based in Indonesia, with her son's future as a powerful politician prepared and organized for him later on.


2. The US backed brutal regimes through out the world to suppress communism which included torture, mass murder and horrific brutality.

The US governments false narrative of an ethical foreign policy based on lofty ideals of "freedom, democracy, human rights" is false but is essential for the US elite to market to its populace and also goes along with the American concept of "American exceptionalism" of the "American dream" with the US being a sort of promised land, an epitomy of an ideal society where everyone can "make it" (attain relative prosperity).

This itself largely derived from early Anglo-American Protestanism where groups such as the Quakers and others arrived in North America believing they were laying the foundations of a neo-Biblical Utopia.