Word: boyolali
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...members, 30% of its total, among the poverty stricken peasants in the region surrounding the sprawling city of Solo. In the month following the abortive "Gestapu" (30th of September) coup, the P.K.I, openly defied the army in a region of terror in Solo and the nearby towns of Boyolali and Klaten that resulted in some 200 to 600 being clubbed or stabbed to death-or disposed of by that hoary Chinese practice of burying the victim up to his neck and leaving him to the sun and insects...
Escaping History? The Chinese merchants of the district had little connection with the Communists, but in reprisal to Communist brutality, Moslem and Christian youths burned more than 200 Chinese homes. As a result of the terror, usually bustling Solo, Boyolali and Klaten are anemic ghost towns. On the highway from Djokjakarta to Solo, normally clogged with traffic, only an occasional bullock cart lumbers by, while convoys of steel-helmeted Dipo-negoro division units from Sumatra and colorful Kommando Para Raiders from Djakarta in bright vermilion berets race past the empty paddies in armored cars and trucks. In Solo, Moslem student...
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