The International People S Tribunal For 1965 And The Indonesian Genocide

Author : Saskia E. Wieringa,Annie Pohlman,Jess Melvin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429764950

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The International People’s Tribunal for 1965 and the Indonesian Genocide by Saskia E. Wieringa,Annie Pohlman,Jess Melvin Pdf

The International People’s Tribunal addressed the many forms of violence during the period of the massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia. It was held in The Hague, The Netherlands, in November 2015, to commemorate fifty years since the killings began. The Tribunal, as a people’s court, holds no jurisdiction and was an attempt to achieve symbolic justice for the crimes of 1965. This book offers new and previously unpublished insights into the types of crimes committed in the 1965 genocide and how these crimes were prosecuted at the International People’s Tribunal for 1965. Divided thematically, each chapter analyses a different crime – enslavement, sexual violence, torture – perpetrated during the Indonesian killings. The contributions consider either general patterns across Indonesia or a particular region of the archipelago. The book reflects on how crimes were charged at the International People’s Tribunal for 1965 and focuses on questions relating to the place of people’s tribunals in truth-seeking and justice claims, and the prospective for transitional justice in contemporary Indonesia. Positioning the events in Indonesia in 1965 within the broader scope of comparative genocide studies, the book is an original and timely contribution to knowledge about the dynamics of the Indonesian killings. It will be of interest to academics in the field of Asian studies, in particular Southeast Asia, Genocide Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice and Transitional Justice Studies.

Author : Saskia E. Wieringa,Nursyahbani Katjasungkana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429802430

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Propaganda and the Genocide in Indonesia by Saskia E. Wieringa,Nursyahbani Katjasungkana Pdf

In Indonesia, the events of 1st October 1965 were followed by a campaign to annihilate the Communist Party and its alleged sympathisers. It resulted in the murder of an estimate of one million people – a genocide that counts as one of the largest mass murders after WWII – and the incarceration of another million, many of them for a decade or more without any legal process. This drive was justified and enabled by a propaganda campaign in which communists were painted as atheist, hypersexual, amoral and intent to destroy the nation. To date, the effects of this campaign are still felt, and the victims are denied the right of association and freedom of speech. This book presents the history of the genocide and propaganda campaign and the process towards the International People’s Tribunal on 1965 crimes against humanity in Indonesia (IPT 1965), which was held in November 2015 in The Hague, The Netherlands. The authors, an Indonesian Human Rights lawyer and a Dutch academic examine this unique event, which for the first time brings these crimes before an international court, and its verdict. They single out the campaign of hate propaganda as it provided the incitement to kill so many Indonesians and why this propaganda campaign is effective to this day. The first book on this topic, it fills a significant gap in Asian Studies and Genocide Studies.

Author : Helene van Klinken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Crimes against humanity
ISBN : 6028331791

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Findings and Documents of the International People's Tribunal on Crimes Against Humanity in Indonesia, 1965 by Helene van Klinken Pdf

Author : Katharine McGregor,Jess Melvin,Annie Pohlman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319714554

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The Indonesian Genocide of 1965 by Katharine McGregor,Jess Melvin,Annie Pohlman Pdf

This collection of essays by Indonesian and foreign contributors offers new and highly original analyses of the mass violence in Indonesia which began in 1965 and its aftermath. Fifty years on from one the largest genocides of the twentieth century, they probe the causes, dynamics and legacies of this violence through the use of a wide range of sources and different scholarly lenses. Chapter 12 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Author : Martijn Eickhoff,Geert Arend Klinken,Geoffrey Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1030894490

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1965 Today by Martijn Eickhoff,Geert Arend Klinken,Geoffrey Robinson Pdf

Introduction: 1965 Today: Living with the Indonesian Massacres / Martijn Eickhoff, Gerry van Klinken & Geoffrey Robinson. - "Down to the Very Roots": The Indonesian Army's Role in the Mass Killings of 1965-66 / Geoffrey Robinson. - The Memory Landscapes of "1965" in Semarang / Martijn Eickhoff, Donny Danardono, Tjahjono Rahardjo & Hotmauli Sidabalok. - Genocide Finally Enters Public Discourse: The International People's Tribunal 1965 / Aboeprijadi Santoso & Gerry van Klinken. - Sexual Violence as Torture: Crimes against Humanity during the 1965-66 Killings in Indonesia / Annie Pohlman. - Mechanics of Mass Murder: A Case for Understanding the Indonesian Killings as Genocide / Jess Melvin. - Indonesia in the Global Context of Genocide and Transitional Justice / Uğur Ümit Üngör & Nanci Adler. - Contesting Victimhood in the Indonesian Anti-Communist Violence and Its Implications for Justice for the Victims of the 1968 South Blitar Trisula Operation in East Java / Vannessa Hearman. - Exposing Impunity: Memory and Human Rights Activism in Indonesia and Argentina / Katharine McGregor.

Author : Andrew Byrnes,Gabrielle Simm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108421676

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Peoples' Tribunals and International Law by Andrew Byrnes,Gabrielle Simm Pdf

Includes papers presented at the expert seminar of people's tribunals and international law on 27-28 September 2013 in Rome at the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal under the sponsorship of the Australian Human Rights Centre of the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Author : Jess Melvin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351273305

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The Army and the Indonesian Genocide by Jess Melvin Pdf

For the past half century, the Indonesian military has depicted the 1965-66 killings, which resulted in the murder of approximately one million unarmed civilians, as the outcome of a spontaneous uprising. This formulation not only denied military agency behind the killings, it also denied that the killings could ever be understood as a centralised, nation-wide campaign. Using documents from the former Indonesian Intelligence Agency’s archives in Banda Aceh this book shatters the Indonesian government’s official propaganda account of the mass killings and proves the military’s agency behind those events. This book tells the story of the 3,000 pages of top-secret documents that comprise the Indonesian genocide files. Drawing upon these orders and records, along with the previously unheard stories of 70 survivors, perpetrators, and other eyewitness of the genocide in Aceh province it reconstructs, for the first time, a detailed narrative of the killings using the military’s own accounts of these events. This book makes the case that the 1965-66 killings can be understood as a case of genocide, as defined by the 1948 Genocide Convention. The first book to reconstruct a detailed narrative of the genocide using the army’s own records of these events, it will be of interest to students and academics in the field of Southeast Asian Studies, History, Politics, the Cold War, Political Violence and Comparative Genocide.

Author : Vanessa Hearman
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814722940

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Unmarked Graves by Vanessa Hearman Pdf

The anti-communist violence that swept across Indonesia in 1965–66 produced a particularly high death toll in East Java. It also transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of survivors, who faced decades of persecution, imprisonment and violence. In this book, Vannessa Hearman examines the human cost and community impact of the violence on people from different sides of the political divide. Her major contribution is an examination of the experiences of people on the political Left. Drawing on interviews, archival records, and government and military reports, she traces the lives of a number of individuals, following their efforts to build a base for resistance in the South Blitar area of East Java, and their subsequent journeys into prisons and detention centres, or into hiding and a shadowy underground existence. She also provides a new understanding of relations between the army and its civilian supporters, many of whom belonged to Indonesia’s largest Islamic organisation, Nahdlatul Ulama. In recent times, the Indonesian killings have received increased attention, but researchers have struggled to overcome a dearth of available records and the stigma associated with communist party membership. By studying events in a single province and focusing on the experiences of individuals, Hearman has taken a large step toward a better understanding of a fraught period in Indonesia’s recent past.

Author : Simon Lewis,Jeffrey Olick,Joanna Wawrzyniak,Malgorzata Pakier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030937058

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Regions of Memory by Simon Lewis,Jeffrey Olick,Joanna Wawrzyniak,Malgorzata Pakier Pdf

“Regions of memory” are a scale of social and cultural memory that reaches above the national, yet remains narrower than the global or universal. The chapters of this volume analyze transnational constellations of memory across and between several geographical areas, exploring historical, political and cultural interactions between societies. Such a perspective enables a more diverse field of possible comparisons in memory studies, studying a variety of global memory regions in parallel. Moreover, it reveals lesser-known vectors and mechanisms of memory travel, such as across Cold War battle lines, across the Indian Ocean, or between Southeast Asia and western Europe. Chapters 1 and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Eve Monique Zucker,Ben Kiernan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000378153

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Political Violence in Southeast Asia since 1945 by Eve Monique Zucker,Ben Kiernan Pdf

This book examines postwar waves of political violence that affected six Southeast Asian countries – Indonesia, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam – from the wars of independence in the mid-twentieth century to the recent Rohingya genocide. Featuring cases not previously explored, and offering fresh insights into more familiar cases, the chapters cover a range of topics including the technologies of violence, the politics of fear, inclusion and exclusion, justice and ethics, repetitions of mass violence events, impunity, law, ethnic and racial killings, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The book delves into the violence that has reverberated across the region spurred by local and global politics and ideologies, through the examination of such themes as identity ascription and formation, existential and ontological questions, collective memories of violence, and social and political transformation. In our current era of global social and political transition, the volume’s case studies provide an opportunity to consider potential repercussions and outcomes of various political and ideological positionings and policies. Enhancing our understanding of the technologies, techniques, motives, causes, consequences, and connections between violent episodes in the Southeast Asian cases, the book raises key questions for the study of mass violence worldwide.

Author : John Roosa
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299327309

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Buried Histories by John Roosa Pdf

In 1965–66, army-organized massacres claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of supporters of the Communist Party of Indonesia. Very few of these atrocities have been studied in any detail, and answers to basic questions remain unclear. What was the relationship between the army and civilian militias? How could the perpetrators come to view unarmed individuals as dangerous enemies of the nation? Why did Communist Party supporters, who numbered in the millions, not resist? Drawing upon years of research and interviews with survivors, Buried Histories is an impressive contribution to the literature on genocide and mass atrocity, crucially addressing the topics of media, military organization, economic interests, and resistance.

Author : Barbora Holá,Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira,Hollie Nyseth Brehm,Maartje Weerdesteijn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 985 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190915629

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The Oxford Handbook on Atrocity Crimes by Barbora Holá,Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira,Hollie Nyseth Brehm,Maartje Weerdesteijn Pdf

"The Oxford Handbook on Atrocity Crimes consolidates and further develops the evolving field of atrocity studies by combining major mono-, inter-, and multi-disciplinary research on atrocity crimes in one volume encompassing contributions of leading scholars. Atrocity crimes-war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide-are manifestations of large scale and systematic criminality committed within specific political, ideological, and societal contexts. These crimes are committed by a multiplicity of actors against a large number of victims who suffer far-reaching consequences. Scholars studying mass atrocities are scattered not only across disciplines-such as international (criminal) law, international relations, criminology, political science, psychology, sociology, history, anthropology, or demography-but also across the topic-related fields, which are by definition multi- and interdisciplinary but are typically limited to a particular category or aspect of atrocity crimes. This Handbook brings together these strands of scholarship on (mass) atrocities and interrogates atrocity crimes as an overarching category of criminality, while simultaneously keeping an eye on differences among the individual constitutive categories. The Handbook covers topics related to the etiology and causes of atrocities, the actors involved, the harm and victims of atrocity crimes, the reactions to mass atrocities, and in-depth case studies of understudied situations of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004512573

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Detention Camps in Asia by Anonim Pdf

Detention camps in Asia have held hundreds of thousands of people – political dissidents, prisoners of war, and civilian populations. This volume examines why states detain, the conditions of detention, and the effects of detention systems on society as a whole.

Author : Vincent Bevins
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781541724013

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The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins Pdf

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2020 BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- backed by the United States. In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil and Chile. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely because the CIA's secret interventions were so successful. In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins builds on his incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently declassified documents, archival research and eye-witness testimony collected across twelve countries to reveal a shocking legacy that spans the globe. For decades, it's been believed that parts of the developing world passed peacefully into the U.S.-led capitalist system. The Jakarta Method demonstrates that the brutal extermination of unarmed leftists was a fundamental part of Washington's final triumph in the Cold War.

Author : Elizabeth F. Drexler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501773112

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Infrastructures of Impunity by Elizabeth F. Drexler Pdf

In Infrastructures of Impunity Elizabeth F. Drexler argues that the creation and persistence of impunity for the perpetrators of the Cold War Indonesian genocide (1965–66) is not only a legal status but also a cultural and social process. Impunity for the initial killings and for subsequent acts of political violence has many elements: bureaucratic, military, legal, political, educational, and affective. Although these elements do not always work at once—at times some are dormant while others are ascendant—together they can be described as a unified entity, a dynamic infrastructure, whose existence explains the persistence of impunity. For instance, truth telling, a first step in many responses to state violence, did not undermine the infrastructure but instead bent to it. Creative and artistic responses to revelations about the past, however, have begun to undermine the infrastructure by countering its temporality, affect, and social stigmatization and demonstrating its contingency and specific actions, policies, and processes that would begin to dismantle it. Drexler contends that an infrastructure of impunity could take hold in an established democracy.