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If any among you have an interest in documentary style films I highly suggest The Act of Killing.
It is not a pleasant viewing experience, it is however good art and should be experienced anyway.
When is this genocidal dictator trend gonna die?
A lot of people like licking boots apparently.
The whole campaign has been weird. There's this gemol (cutesy) trend with campaign posters and I keep seeing this war criminal's face done up with AI to look like a Pixar character like that's gonna make people forget he brought the military down on Jakarta in the 90s?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Today, however, he has the state apparatus behind him, mobilized by the incumbent civilian President Joko Widodo, known as Jokowi, who had previously privately discussed with his staff trying the general for war crimes.
At an internal meeting last Wednesday, army and intelligence officials discussed the existence of a plan to, if needed, use the state apparatus to do electoral fraud, according to two people familiar with the scheme.
After Santa Cruz, we were able to report and mobilize support, helping to get U.S. Congress to end the flow of arms to Indonesia — a key to the government’s downfall, Suharto’s security chief later griped to me.
In 1998, with Suharto hobbled by the arms cutoff and facing growing demonstrations, Prabowo abducted 24 democratic activists, 13 of whom he “disappeared.” He also engendered a campaign of murder, arson, and rape, mainly against ethnic Chinese residents.
This mobilization took a hit, though, shortly before election day, when I published the minutes of a meeting at Prabowo’s home where he and his generals made plans for imprisoning political opponents, referring back explicitly to the Suharto era.
As his term drew to a close, Jokowi explored options for extending his own legal mandate, but when these routes were blocked, he cut a deal with Prabowo and lent him his son, Gibran, as a running mate.
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