Long read on how British black propaganda and fake newsletters helped spark one of the worst atrocities in post war history. The events of 1965-66 in Indonesia and the purge against the PKI is little known here. Our part in them hardly known at all.
theguardian.com/world/2021/oct…
theguardian.com/world/2021/oct…
Undoubtedly the History Reclaimed lot will just ignore this stuff. 
In my twenties I bizarrely found myself talking to Margaret Thatcher at a drinks party and somehow the subject got onto this. "The problem with Indonesia is that it was never colonised by the British!" She declared loudly at me - and having drunk enough I politely corrected her.
It's not a lecture for now ... one for the self published autobiography when I'm 80. Suffice to say she got increasingly annoyed and walked off before I'd finished.
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