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The US had been acting behind the scenes to make Indonesia's political history what it was.
The US supported and helped to lead a violent rebellion in 1957 and 1958
(while denying that it was doing so), successfully pressured Indonesia
to "postpone" its 1959 elections (thus ending Indonesia's free
elections for forty years),
and conspired with the killers (including supplying a list of names
of top political leaders to be killed) in the great
political cleansing of 1965 in which hundreds of thousands of
Indonesian communists and their friends were killed as the country was cleansed of leftism,
and supported the murderous Suharto dictatorship
for the next three decades.
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