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On the 50th anniversary of the 1965 communist purge, US Senator Tom Udall has reintroduced a resolution that would bring attention to the murder of up to 1 million people, which he deemed as one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century.

Udall'€™s resolution, which he first introduced last year, urges President Joko '€œJokowi'€ Widodo'€™s government to create a truth and reconciliation commission to address the tragedy. It also calls on the US government to establish an interagency working group and to release relevant classified documents.

'€œBeginning on Oct. 1, 1965, in Indonesia, between 50,000 and 1 million individuals '€” many of them civilians '€” were killed by and with the support of the Indonesian government. Many more were imprisoned without due process of law, making this one of the worst mass atrocities in the history of Indonesia,'€ said Udall, a member of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in a statement on Friday.

Your comments:

This should be seen as another way for the US to interfere in Indonesia'€™s domestic affairs.

 The US has no moral right to tell Indonesia to apologize to a bunch of communist thugs who will then recommend the Indonesian government pay them compensation like what Germany is doing for the Zionist Jews, which in turn allows them to steal more Palestinian land when the US has yet to recognize the genocide it committed against Native Americans in the past.

Japan Rocks

It is unbelievable that a human being could be so uneducated and brainwashed. Perhaps you went to a pesantren (Islamic boarding school) or madrasah (Islamic school), which would explain why you twist reality to suit the propaganda. You have my deep sympathy.

Maurice Gold

It'€™s not if, it'€™s when: We will do it, sooner or later. We will know what happened. And what happened in 1998, too.

Why wait? It'€™s time to grow up. Are we strong enough? Are we a big country?

Are we a democracy? Those are the real questions.

Jekk