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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 10237998, member: 2844"]In those days every foreigner or local white person was regarded as a foreign agent out to destroy the Indonesian Republic. The Netherlands sent in ships and planes to evacuate Dutch citizens and Dutch-Indonesians who had the right papers to be eligible for Dutch citizenship. Those without the right papers had to fear for their lives, because Dutch-Indonesians were just as suspect to the Indonesian authorities and the killing gangs as white people. As were Peranakans and Chinese, who were also prime targets of the killing gangs.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you can stomach it, watch "The Act of Killing" about the people who perpetrated the mass murders of 1965-66. About 100 times more scary than "The Year of Living Dangerously" about the same period, but an absolute masterpiece in every aspect.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 10237998, member: 2844"]In those days every foreigner or local white person was regarded as a foreign agent out to destroy the Indonesian Republic. The Netherlands sent in ships and planes to evacuate Dutch citizens and Dutch-Indonesians who had the right papers to be eligible for Dutch citizenship. Those without the right papers had to fear for their lives, because Dutch-Indonesians were just as suspect to the Indonesian authorities and the killing gangs as white people. As were Peranakans and Chinese, who were also prime targets of the killing gangs. If you can stomach it, watch "The Act of Killing" about the people who perpetrated the mass murders of 1965-66. About 100 times more scary than "The Year of Living Dangerously" about the same period, but an absolute masterpiece in every aspect.[/QUOTE]
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