Pretext for Mass Murder
Roosa, John In the early morning hours of October 1, 1965, a group calling itself the September 30th Movement kidnapped and executed six generals of the Indonesian army, including its highest commander. The group claimed that it was attempting to preempt a coup, but it was quickly defeated as the senior surviving general, Haji Mohammad Suharto, drove the movement s partisans out of Jakarta. Riding the crest of mass violence, Suharto blamed the Communist P...