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Bali Writer’s Gabfest Forced to Drop 1965 Bloodletting Panels

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Oct 24, 2015
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Bali’s prestigious international writers and artists’ festival has agreed to drop several sessions dealing with the massacre of hundreds of thousands of people in 1965 in Java and Bali after a threat by the Indonesian government that the entire festival would be shut down if they didn’t.

This year is the 50th anniversary of the massacre, which ultimately…

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