In 1965-66, between half a million and 3 million 'communists' - union members, landless farmers, intellectuals and ethnic Chinese people - were exterminated by paramilitary gangsters sponsored by the new military dictatorship of Indonesia. The same regime has been in power and persecuting its opponents ever since. Twelve years ago, film director Joshua Oppenheimer realized that the killings had received direct support from the West but were hardly ever researched. To him, the situation constituted a living experiment in mass impunity, as if "the Nazis were still in power". Having lost relatives to the Holocaust, he felt he owed it to the victims and their families to document the genocide.
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