Washington, DC The U.S. Government provided support to Indonesia while up to one million suspected communist sympathizers were being killed by the island nation’s military, according to newly declassified American documents from the 1960’s. The declassified materials contain 30,000 documents from the U.S. embassy in Jakarta that indicate American officials knew about mass killings in 1965-66 from the start. During that time, the U.S. provided the Indonesian military with money, equipment and lists of communist officials. Also known as the Indonesian Genocide or Indonesian Communist Purge, the murders began as an anti-communist purge following a coup attempt. Over many months … Continue reading Indonesia mass murders were known to U.S. officials