#or the indonesian genocide

[miamicommune]

i know unamerican is the most disputed term of all time but calling supporting genocide an unamerican practice rly does feel uncomfortably like denial when you look at american history

[sky-daddy-hates-me]

Do not forget about West Papua.

Do not forget about the colonial genocide being committed against the indigenous West Papuans.

[sayruq]

[northgazaupdates]

26 April 2024

Environmental engineer and public health consultant Dr. Tamer Al-Najjar reports that despite the occupation’s attempt to destroy it, the Indonesian Hospital will be back to operation within the next few weeks. Work is also already underway to return Al-Shifa Hospital to operation, which we have seen from the social media accounts of staff members.

There is never a time to lose hope, but especially not now. Gaza lives, and Palestine WILL be free in our lifetimes.

[hussyknee]

Unrolled twitter thread by Progressive International (@ProgIntl)

30 Sept 24 • 4 minute read • Read on X

On 30 September 1965, the Indonesian military, working closely with the US government, initiated a coup that would depose President Sukarno and install the brutal, 30-year dictatorship of General Suharto.

In the dark years that followed, the dictatorship massacred over a million Indonesian communists, with the CIA and US diplomats drawing up “kill lists” for the Indonesian military. The operation would become a template for the US’s regime change operations for decades to come.

Major-General Suharto with Indonesian Army in 1966

In 1945, President Sukarno led Indonesia to independence from Dutch colonial rule. He championed the Non-Aligned Movement and hosted the historic Bandung Conference, a meeting of Afro-Asian states, in 1955.

First President of Indonesia Sukarno making a speech circa 1945

Opening the conference and forecasting what was to come, Sukarno said: “We are often told ‘Colonialism is dead’. Let us not be deceived or even soothed by that… Colonialism also has its modern dress, in the form of economic control, intellectual control, actual physical control by a small, but alien community within a nation.”

Leaders attending the Bandung Conference 1955 in Bandung, Indonesia. From left: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Ghanian Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, Egyptian Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser, President Sukarno, and Yugoslavian Prime Minister Josip Broz Tito.

By 1965, Indonesia possessed one of the world's largest communist parties, the PKI. The PKI had a mass membership and mobilized vast numbers of people in the battle against Indonesia’s ruling class.

Campaign of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) in September 1955.

Terrified by the strength and organization of Indonesia’s people, the Indonesian military’s 30th September Movement began to purge the PKI.

Men suspected of being IPK members being transported under guard by an armed Indonesian soldier

In the early hours of 1 October, a group of military conscripts murdered six high-ranking generals. Blaming the deaths on the PKI, Suharto used the attacks as a pretext to seize power. CIA communications equipment allowed him to spread false reports around the country and begin a long campaign of anti-communist propaganda.

The US had tried to overthrow Sukarno for years; in 1958, the CIA backed armed regional rebellions against the central government. In 1965, they did all they could to aid Suharto’s murderous power grab.

The campaign soon became genocidal. On islands like Bali, up to 10% of the population was massacred — and luxury hotels soon began to appear over the killing fields.

One US embassy staffer told the US press that Suharto’s military “probably killed a lot of people, and I probably have a lot of blood on my hands, but that's not all bad.”

Time Magazine referred to the killings as “the West’s best news for years in Asia”.

A cable from the US embassy’s first secretary, Mary Vance Trent, to the State Department referred to events in Indonesia as a “fantastic switch which has occurred over 10 short weeks”. It also included an estimate that 100,000 people had been slaughtered.

Cementing his power, Suharto became president in 1967. His ‘New Order’ policy allowed Western capitalism to exploit Indonesia’s cheap labour and plunder its natural resources. Civil rights and dissent were suppressed.

In one of the world’s most populous countries, any possibility for the emergence of a new, democratic political project was eliminated. Richard Nixon described Indonesia as “the greatest prize in Southeast Asia”. Suharto would not leave office until 1998.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan stands with Indonesian President Suharto in the White House South Lawn at the arrival ceremony for Suharto's State Visit. Oct 12, 1982

CIA officers described Suharto’s rise to power and anti-communist purge as the “model operation” and “Jakarta” soon became the codeword for anti-communist extermination programs in Latin America, where hundreds of thousands were massacred in regime change efforts engineered by Washington.

[i-am-aprl]

"People were hanged in front of patients."

Bisan Owda (@wizard_bisan1) spoke to Palestinians in December who survived Israel's dayslong siege of the Indonesian Hospital, one of northern Gaza's largest health care facilities. Eyewitnesses say Israeli forces tortured and killed wounded people. A nurse told AJ+ that people inside the hospital were forced to sleep in the same rooms as corpses.

[estrogenism]

idk i wish people would talk more about papua when it comes to occupied nations.

free papua.

[the-lady-maddy]

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[nando161mando]

▶️ An Indonesian street artist created graffiti portraying Israeli child killers Netanyahu and Biden, condemning their cruel genocide in Gaza.

[zestingbloodorange]

Joegaza93 on Instagram story : All the hospitals in Gaza city and in the north of Gaza are out of service now, the last hospital was the Indonesian hospital in the northern of Gaza Strip now it's under siege by the Israeli tanks

[aidenknow]

Recently found an edit on TikTok in regards to the Palestine genocide. The edit itself provided important info such as the number of deaths from the Palestine genocide, the history of ethic cleansing of Palestine by Israel and much more shown in the video itself. The song used for the is really fitting to what’s going on currently.

Remember to educate yourself and be on the right side of history. Spread the word, donate charity and sign petitions. Go out to protest and call on ceasefire for Palestine!!!

The edit belongs to @theindiemie (TikTok)

Music is called Peradaban by .Feast

FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE

[sky-daddy-hates-me]

This person says they're anti-israel and pro-palestine. They say they believe the human rights media when it comes to Israel's genocide yet they claim they're unreliable when the same media outlets point out the human rights abuses in West Papua by Indonesia.

If you only believe that countries that aren't your own are capable of breaching international humanitarian law, committing genocide, and colonisation, then your blind loyalty to your government will be your undoing.

[news4dzhozhar]

[northgazaupdates]

21 October 2024

Journalist Mahmoud Al-Awadia reposts on Telegram a photo recently shared to social media by an IOF soldier in Jabaliya this morning. It appears to show dozens or even hundreds of Gazans crowded together in the street, closely guarded by IOF soldiers. The exact context of this photo is not yet available. However, multiple journalists have reported seeing or speaking to people who have seen captured civilians being detained by the IOF. In at least one instance, outside the Indonesian Hospital, the occupation is believed to have dug a pit forced several captives inside. Whether this was for detention purposes, or for something even more sinister, is not yet known. What is known is the IOF’s pattern of behavior, and it gives us ample reason to be extremely concerned for the captives. Please keep your eyes on Jabaliya and north Gaza.

[tungledotedu]

every accusation is a confession.

one side is using a hospital to set up headquarters and shelter its combatants.

it's the idf. they have been using the indonesian hospital as their base for two weeks. this was reported by the medical emergency rescue committee (MER-C), a humanitarian organisation that helped build the hospital.

here are a few sources, all in indonesian. excerpt from CNN:

"What is happening now, around two weeks ago, Israel placed its troops and [turned] [the Indonesian Hospital] into its headquarters. Previously, they accused the hospital of serving as Hamas' headquarters, and no Hamas member was there," said Sarbini.

right now, MER-C is asking for the WHO to investigate. from detik:

"We, MER-C, wish to condemn these underhanded methods carried out by Israel, which used the Indonesian Hospital as a base, fortification, and this was done to attack the fighters in Palestine," explained Sarbini. "We also ask the World Health Organization (WHO) to send a team to investigate so that this doesn't become a bad thing," he continued.

[sepedarodatiga]

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Israel is using the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza as their base 😡