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Accountability for Suharto’s Crimes Must Not Die With Him
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Accountability for Suharto’s Crimes Must Not Die With Him

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Jan 29, 2008
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Indonesia's former dictator General Suharto has died in bed and not in jail, escaping justice for his numerous crimes in East Timor and throughout the Indonesian archipelago. One of the worst mass murderers of the 20th century, his death tolls still shock:

  • 500,000 to 1million Indonesians in the aftermath of his 1965 seizure of power;

  • 100,000 in West Papua;

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