>> >(Except that few could hold a candle to Suharto's record of killing
> between
>> >500,000 and 5 million political opponents in his first couple of years
>> >alone, while the west turned a blind eye )
>>
>> The west didn't turn a blind eye. They not only had an eye on it, but
>> provided part of the list of the to-be-killed.
>>
>> kj khoo
>
> I meant the media etc. Ordinary people in the west had no idea, and in
> general they still don't know.
Kathy Kadane of the tiny States News Service got a front page story in the Sf Examiner of this once. http://www.namebase.org/kadane.html The following article appeared in the Spartanburg, South Carolina Herald- Journal on May 19, 1990, then in the San Francisco Examiner on May 20, 1990, the Washington Post on May 21, 1990, and the Boston Globe on May 23, 1990. The version below is from the Examiner.
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/d270.html Ex-agents say CIA compiled death lists for Indonesians After 25 years, Americans speak of their role in exterminating Communist Party by Kathy Kadane, States News Service, 1990
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB52/ CIA STALLING STATE DEPARTMENT HISTORIES
ARCHIVE POSTS ONE OF TWO DISPUTED VOLUMES ON WEB
STATE HISTORIANS CONCLUDE U.S. PASSED NAMES OF COMMUNISTS TO INDONESIAN ARMY, WHICH KILLED AT LEAST 105,000 IN 1965-66 -- Michael Pugliese