LEADER 03395nam 22005894a 450 001 9910955111703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612270345 010 $a9781282270343 010 $a1282270346 010 $a9780299220334 010 $a0299220338 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786602 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000226762 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11200496 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000226762 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10259518 035 $a(PQKB)11633834 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444860 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444860 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10315777 035 $a(OCoLC)431996014 035 $a(Perlego)4437480 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786602 100 $a20060329d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPretext for mass murder $ethe September 30th Movement and Suharto's coup d'etat in Indonesia /$fJohn Roosa 210 $aMadison, Wis. $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc2006 215 $axii, 329 p. $cill., maps 225 1 $aNew perspectives in Southeast Asian studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780299220341 311 08$a0299220346 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 305-318) and index. 330 8 $aIn the early morning hours of October 1, 1965, a group calling itself the September 30th Movement kidnapped and executed six generals of the Indonesian army, including its highest commander. The group claimed that it was attempting to preempt a coup, but it was quickly defeated as the senior surviving general, Haji Mohammad Suharto, drove the movement's partisans out of Jakarta. Riding the crest of mass violence, Suharto blamed the Communist Party of Indonesia for masterminding the movement and used the emergency as a pretext for gradually eroding President Sukarno's powers and installing himself as a ruler. Imprisoning and killing hundreds of thousands of alleged communists over the next year, Suharto remade the events of October 1, 1965 into the central event of modern Indonesian history and the cornerstone of his thirty-two-year dictatorship. Despite its importance as a trigger for one of the twentieth century's worst cases of mass violence, the September 30th Movement has remained shrouded in uncertainty. Who actually masterminded it? What did they hope to achieve? Why did they fail so miserably? And what was the movement's connection to international Cold War politics? In Pretext for Mass Murder, John Roosa draws on a wealth of new primary source material to suggest a solution to the mystery behind the movement and the enabling myth of Suharto's repressive regime. His book is a remarkable feat of historical investigation. Finalist, Social Sciences Book Award, the International Convention of Asian Scholars 410 0$aNew perspectives in Southeast Asian studies. 517 3 $aSeptember 30th Movement and Suharto's Coup d'etat in Indonesia 607 $aIndonesia$xHistory$yCoup d'e?tat, 1965 607 $aIndonesia$xPolitics and government$y1950-1966 676 $a959.803/6 700 $aRoosa$b John$0940648 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910955111703321 996 $aPretext for mass murder$93011350 997 $aUNINA