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Comments: Intimidation of families of 1965 purge victims
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ct. 29, p4
A rowdy rally on Monday denouncing communism along with death threats ' aimed at the heirs of those linked to the now-defunct Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) ' followed the dispersal in Yogyakarta on Sunday of a gathering of relatives of the victims of the 1965 anti-communist purge.
'[The families of the victims] are also communists. It is legal for us to kill them, just like when we killed members of the PKI in the past,' shouted Burhanuddin ZR, founder of the Yogyakarta chapter of the Indonesian Anti-Communist Front (FAKI).
Your comments:
It's a little amazing in 2013 that you still see people saying crap like 'I want to kill someone for their beliefs'. Sounds a little like fundamentalism to me.
I guess by extension then, the families of communist killers are also murderers and, therefore, we should put them all in jail?
Lukman Al Hakim
Why isn't he is jail for admitting to murder and threatening murder. A fundamental principle of democracy is no man (or woman) should have to live in fear of another.
Yet again Indonesia fails.
Rusty Nails
