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Why not genocide? Anti-Chinese violence in Aceh, 1965-1966
Warum nicht Völkermord? Antichinesische Gewalt in Aceh 1965/66
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Abstract "This article provides an account of anti-Chinese violence in Aceh between 1 October 1965 and 17 August 1966. Drawing upon original oral history evidence and previously unknown documentary sources, this article builds upon current scholarly understandings that two phases of violence involving member... view more
"This article provides an account of anti-Chinese violence in Aceh between 1 October 1965 and 17 August 1966. Drawing upon original oral history evidence and previously unknown documentary sources, this article builds upon current scholarly understandings that two phases of violence involving members of the ethnic Chinese community can be identified in Aceh during this period, to explain how a third explicitly ethnic-based phase of violence directed against members of the ethnic Chinese community in Aceh can also be identified. Based on this research and a reflection on the precedent set by the Cambodian genocide as to how the current legal definition of genocide can be applied, this article argues that the assessment that the Indonesian killings should not be understood as genocide is premature." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
genocide; Chinese; Indonesia; Southeast Asia; developing country; Asia
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Sociology of Developing Countries, Developmental Sociology
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy
Document language
English
Publication Year
2013
Page/Pages
p. 63-91
Journal
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 32 (2013) 3
Issue topic
The massacres of 1965-1966 : new interpretations and the current debate in Indonesia
ISSN
1868-1034
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed