Word: java
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists, Red sympathizers and their families are being massacred by the thousands. Backlands army units are reported to have executed thousands of Communists after interrogation in remote rural jails. Moslems, whose political influence had waned as the Communists gained favor with Sukarno, had begun a "holy war" in East Java against Indonesian Reds even before the abortive September coup. Armed with wide-bladed knives called parangs, Moslem bands crept at night into the homes of Communists, killing entire families and burying the bodies in shallow graves...
Resentment against Communists that swept the country after the coup attempt heightened the Moslems' fervor and persuaded the army to turn its head as the holy war spread quickly to western Borneo and Sumatra. In Central Java the army even gave military training to Moslem youths. The murder campaign became so brazen in parts of rural East Java that Moslem bands placed the heads of victims on poles and paraded them through villages...
...killings have been on such a scale that the disposal of the corpses has created a serious sanitation problem in East Java and northern Suma tra, where the humid air bears the reek of decaying flesh. Travelers from those areas tell of small rivers and streams that have been literally clogged with bodies; river transportation has at places been impeded...
...couple of days later, he told Peking to stop meddling in Indonesia's internal affairs, declared his nation neutral in the Sino-Soviet feud and brushed off Peking's protest over sackings of Chi nese shops in East Java with the remark that Indonesians had a right to be angry with the Red Chinese...
...epidemic began four years ago with a savage invasion of the Philippines, and the marauding microbes steadily expanded their area of attack. Java, Sumatra, Thailand, the Indian subcontinent, all suffered high casualty rates. Cholera, a disease that had just been written off as almost conquered, was once more on the rampage...