Suharto's Indonesia

A suspected communist sympathizer is questioned at gunpoint in Jakarta
Bettmann / CORBIS

November, 1965
A suspected communist sympathizer is questioned at gunpoint in Jakarta. At least 500,000 were killed in a wave of violence that targeted communist sympathizers amid a power struggle between Suharto and President Sukarno.

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