Article 5VAKA UK’s propaganda leaflets inspired 1960s massacre of Indonesian communists

UK’s propaganda leaflets inspired 1960s massacre of Indonesian communists

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Paul Lashmar, Nicholas Gilby and James Oliver
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Pamphlets attacked the president and foreign minister

Shocking new details have emerged of Britain's role in one of the most brutal massacres of the postwar 20th century.

Last year the Observer revealed how British officials secretly deployed black propaganda in the 1960s to incite prominent Indonesians to cut out" the communist cancer".

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