The Independent
Suharto: 'One of the greatest mass murderers of the 20th century'
When General Suharto came to power in 1965 he overthrew the grandfather of journalist Chris Kline, who explains here why he will not mourn the death of
But when it came time for photographs, and Suharto picked me up, I shouted for him to put me down, and began punching him while he awkwardly kept smiling. I called out that he was a "uomo cattivo", a bad man. Millions of Indonesians who thought the same would never have dared to say so aloud.
Why did Suharto permit this? Because I am the American grandson of the founder of modern
I was just two when Suharto unleashed his "New Order", living in
Much of my family that hadn't been purged after the coup remained in
So I will not mourn Suharto. His death is some small measure of justice, far too late, for all those he killed during nearly 32 years as the absolute dictator of the world's fourth most populous nation, and largest Muslim country. And until he fell in 1998, Suharto enjoyed Western support.
Sukarno, a fiery nationalist, was one of the key architects of the Non-Aligned Movement. The Cold War was at its height, the
The military and intelligence attachés in the
Time magazine described the horrors Gilchrist so calmly endorsed: "The killings have been on such a scale the disposal of corpses has created a serious sanitation problem in east Java and northern
A decade later, again with a green light from Washington,
The man who has just died in
Suharto's advocates claim he modernised
I have visited many countries as a foreign correspondent for CNN and Fox, but all my life I have been excluded from
Chris Kline is an international print and broadcast journalist
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