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Description:THE FORGOTTEN MASSACREAlso referred to as G-30-S PKIThe Forgotten Massacre is a powerful personal story based on the author's experiences in a reality most people will not want exists. But it does! Imagine that your membership of the local dance club not only triggers your own, but also your family's death!The novel is a personal tale of dreams and friendships, love, affection and jealousy, strong mental relations, about naivety, guardian angels and faith in being able to cope with the impossible.It is a novel about what people are able to do at each other without wanting to, when a superpower plays “Russian roulette” with a nation and its population.When we look at the world society as a whole today, the novel may raise the question: Is the present time different from the past? In the summer of 1965 unrest simmers as so often in Indonesia. President Sukarno, the freedom hero from the uprising against the Dutch, has lost his grip on the coalition of Muslims, communists and the military, whose internal strife he has used to keep himself in power.On the night between 30 September and 1 October an action, that should prevent a group of generals to take power brings the nation into a coup and a counter coup. Six generals are murdered within a few hours. Without participating the Communist Party is blamed. The army responds with a brutal slaughter of communists and their followers. In four months one million people are killed, in a merciless civil war between communists, Muslims and the Army.Soon the milestones Java are decorated with decapitated heads.U.S. welcomes the vengeance. Nobody knows that CIA stands behind and that an employee in the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta has provided the army with lists, right down to village level, of Communists and their sympathizers.In the Armageddon that follows five young women and men, in the gap between teenagers and adults, are abruptly pulled out of their plans and dreams for the future.Despite their widely different ethnic backgrounds, culture, political beliefs, morality, religion, and the lack of same, the five young people rely on each other to survive the massacre.But can they trust each other in a civil war where many years of neighbors and friends are ready not only to inform against each other, but also to participate in the killing?In the hope to survive.When the author, 19 years old, by chance became involved in the events which the historians later dubbed "The Forgotten Massacre" he had no idea that the U.S. could have contributed to the mass killings ... not until many years later when he in the beginning of the 1990s read the following:"I have probably a lot of blood on my hands. But it is not that bad!"- Robert Martens, employed at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta in 1965The phrase was published in an article written by Kathy Kadane printed in the New York Times. The article was commented with a denial of the U.S. involvement. "Robert Martens worked entirely on his own, without permission of any kind”, it was clearly stated by officials. However the article also stated: "... maybe. I don't remember. Maybe we did it. I have forgotten."- William Colby, director CIA, Far East Division in the 1960's.The truth that should be concealed is the germ of this novel.Published in Denmark in Danish October 2007Published in Indonesia in Bahasa Indonesia June 2009Available on Amazon Kindle eBook in English February 2012 Publishing rights for U.S.A. and other countries are still available.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Forgotten Massacre. To get started finding The Forgotten Massacre, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: THE FORGOTTEN MASSACREAlso referred to as G-30-S PKIThe Forgotten Massacre is a powerful personal story based on the author's experiences in a reality most people will not want exists. But it does! Imagine that your membership of the local dance club not only triggers your own, but also your family's death!The novel is a personal tale of dreams and friendships, love, affection and jealousy, strong mental relations, about naivety, guardian angels and faith in being able to cope with the impossible.It is a novel about what people are able to do at each other without wanting to, when a superpower plays “Russian roulette” with a nation and its population.When we look at the world society as a whole today, the novel may raise the question: Is the present time different from the past? In the summer of 1965 unrest simmers as so often in Indonesia. President Sukarno, the freedom hero from the uprising against the Dutch, has lost his grip on the coalition of Muslims, communists and the military, whose internal strife he has used to keep himself in power.On the night between 30 September and 1 October an action, that should prevent a group of generals to take power brings the nation into a coup and a counter coup. Six generals are murdered within a few hours. Without participating the Communist Party is blamed. The army responds with a brutal slaughter of communists and their followers. In four months one million people are killed, in a merciless civil war between communists, Muslims and the Army.Soon the milestones Java are decorated with decapitated heads.U.S. welcomes the vengeance. Nobody knows that CIA stands behind and that an employee in the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta has provided the army with lists, right down to village level, of Communists and their sympathizers.In the Armageddon that follows five young women and men, in the gap between teenagers and adults, are abruptly pulled out of their plans and dreams for the future.Despite their widely different ethnic backgrounds, culture, political beliefs, morality, religion, and the lack of same, the five young people rely on each other to survive the massacre.But can they trust each other in a civil war where many years of neighbors and friends are ready not only to inform against each other, but also to participate in the killing?In the hope to survive.When the author, 19 years old, by chance became involved in the events which the historians later dubbed "The Forgotten Massacre" he had no idea that the U.S. could have contributed to the mass killings ... not until many years later when he in the beginning of the 1990s read the following:"I have probably a lot of blood on my hands. But it is not that bad!"- Robert Martens, employed at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta in 1965The phrase was published in an article written by Kathy Kadane printed in the New York Times. The article was commented with a denial of the U.S. involvement. "Robert Martens worked entirely on his own, without permission of any kind”, it was clearly stated by officials. However the article also stated: "... maybe. I don't remember. Maybe we did it. I have forgotten."- William Colby, director CIA, Far East Division in the 1960's.The truth that should be concealed is the germ of this novel.Published in Denmark in Danish October 2007Published in Indonesia in Bahasa Indonesia June 2009Available on Amazon Kindle eBook in English February 2012 Publishing rights for U.S.A. and other countries are still available.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Forgotten Massacre. To get started finding The Forgotten Massacre, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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