And it wasn't only Indonesia; the U.S, obliterated 3 million souls in Vietnam, too.
Once you start making a list of countries the U.S. has interfered with, you realize you may be better of listing those we haven't.
Gonna be a short list, let me tell you.
"Our bloody coup in Indonesia"
"As Megawati Sukarnoputri struggles to hang on to control of Indonesia in the latest round of political upheaval, news has been published of how the British government covered up one of the worst massacres of the 20th century. The slaughter in 1965 - of up to a million alleged communist sympathisers - was carried out by General Suharto, who ousted Megawati's father, President Sukarno, to become Indonesia's military dictator. What is still less well known is that the British and American governments did not just cover up the massacre: they had a direct hand in bringing it about....
the British and American governments succeeded not only in engineering the result they wanted (the replacement of Sukarno with General Suharto), but in selling a false version of events that persists to this day.
Amazing isn't it? Paging Phil Zelikow!
Roland Challis, a former BBC south Asia correspondent, has described how British diplomats planted misleading stories in British newspapers....
How little things have changed, huh?
Iraq and 45 minutes comes to mind, Brits!!!
It has been known for more than 10 years that the CIA supplied lists of names for Suharto's assassination squads. What is less widely known is that the supposed pro-communist coup that triggered the crisis was almost certainly also the work of the CIA....
See: Operation Gladio
Suharto's massacres were whitewashed in a campaign of disinformation..."
How little things have changed, huh?
I'm just shaking my head.
I have nothing further to add.
