[PEN-L:9557] Re: INDONESIA 1965

[Sam Pawlett <rsp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From "Am I PKI or Non-PKI" by Pipit Kartawidjaja, Indonesia 40, 1985
p37-56.

"Usually the corpses were no longer recognizable as human. Headless.
Stomachs torn open. The smell was unimaginable. To make sure they didn't
sink, the carcasses were deliberately tied to, or impaled on, bamboo
stakes. and the departure of the corpses from the Kediri region down the
Brantas river achieved its golden age when bodies were stacked together
on rafts over which the PKI banner grandly flew"

"Once the purge of Communist elements got under way, clients stopped
coming for sexual satisfaction. The reason: most clients-and
prostitutes- were too frightened, for, hanging up in front of the
whorehouses were a lot of male Communist genitals--like bananas hung out
for sale."

cited in Benedict Anderson *Spectre of Comparisons* p294, Verso,1999.

Sam Pawlett