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According to accounts brought out of Indonesia by Western diplomats and independent travelers, 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...
...wrote to Newsweek that since the overwhelming majority of Kashmiri is Moslem (the state religion of Pakistan), they tend to be anti-Indian. Miss Levine also stressed that accounts of anti-Indian sentiment are systematically omitted from the Indian press...
There was a time when Bogor Palace was a fun place. Indonesian President Sukarno would sweep in triumphantly from a hot-lipped harangue in downtown Djakarta, pull the black Moslem cap of leadership from his balding head, toss aside his girdle, and relax in sandals and slacks with his lovely Japanese wife Devi. The legion of servants, the carefree dinners, the delight of being on top -all of it made Bogor a pleasure dome beyond compare. Not any longer...
...Wolesi Jirga was contested-in some cases by as many as twelve candidates-and 45% of Afghanistan's eligible voters (everybody above 20) turned out. The resulting legislature included the widest array ever of Afghans: from doctors to shepherds, from liberal lawyers to ultra-conservative mullahs (Moslem teachers), as well as four women and six former political prisoners...