Indonesian President Joko Widodo acknowledges a series of incidents amounting to 'gross human rights violations' have taken place in his country's past, including the bloodshed and arrests that took place in 1965 and 1966.
abc.net.au/news/indonesia-president-joko-widodo-acknowledges-rights-violations/101845560Indonesian President Joko Widodo has acknowledged a series of incidents amounting to "gross human rights violations" have taken place in his country's past, including the bloodshed and arrests that took place in 1965 and 1966.
Some historians and activists have estimated at least 500,000 people were killed in violence that started in late 1965 after then-general Suharto and the military took power following an abortive communist coup."With a clear, genuine mind and conscience, I as a head of state acknowledge that there were gross human rights violations that did happen in many events," Mr Widodo said.
Some accounts put the number of people killed in the wake of the abortive 1965 coup in the hundreds of thousands.
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