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The Communist Party of Indonesia (Partai Komunis Indonesia) was a communist party in Indonesia. Founded in 1920, it eventually became a very large party, with three million members in 1960 and 16% of the national vote in 1955.[1] In 1965, the far-right dictator Suharto came to power in a CIA coup and overthrew the democratically elected Sukarno.[2] The CIA provided Suharto with lists of suspected communists and Suharto killed at least half a million to a million people in 1965 and 1966[3]. The Communist Party of Indonesia was banned in 1966, and the CIA secretly admitted that Suharto's purges were "one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century."[4]
References
- ↑ Alex de Jong (2019-02-01). "The Indonesian Counter-Revolution" Jacobin.
- ↑ Steve Kangas. "A Timeline of CIA Atrocities"
- ↑ Geoffrey B. Robinson (2018). The Killing Season. ISBN 9780691161389
- ↑ David F. Schmitz (2006). The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships (p. 48). [PDF] Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521678537