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The Killing Season

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The definitive account of one of the twentieth century's most brutal, yet least examined, episodes of genocide and detention

The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century-the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965-66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in detention. An expert in modern Indonesian history, genocide, and human rights, Geoffrey Robinson sets out to account for this violence and to end the troubling silence surrounding it. In doing so, he sheds new light on broad, enduring historical questions. How do we account for instances of systematic mass killing and detention? Why are some of these crimes remembered and punished, while others are forgotten? Based on a rich body of primary and secondary sources, The Killing Season is the definitive account of a pivotal period in Indonesian history.

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ISBN: 9780691196497
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Author: Geoffrey Robinson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 456 pages
Series: Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity
Genres: Asian history
Social and cultural history
Genocide and ethnic cleansing
Violence and abuse in society
Human rights, civil rights
War crimes
General and world history