{"id":38306,"date":"2021-10-24T18:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/24\/survivors-of-1965-indonesia-massacres-urge-uk-to-apologise"},"modified":"2021-10-24T18:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T09:00:06","slug":"survivors-of-1965-indonesia-massacres-urge-uk-to-apologise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38306","title":{"rendered":"Survivors of 1965 Indonesia massacres urge UK to apologise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Observer report, families say the move would help heal country\u2019s wounds<\/p>\n<p>Survivors and descendants of those massacred in Indonesia\u2019s anti-communist purge of 1965-1966 are urging the UK government to apologise for its role in what was described in a secret CIA report as \u201cone of the worst mass murders of the 20th century\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/17\/slaughter-in-indonesia-britains-secret-propaganda-war\" title=\"\">Last week the <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/17\/slaughter-in-indonesia-britains-secret-propaganda-war\" title=\"\">Observer<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/17\/slaughter-in-indonesia-britains-secret-propaganda-war\" title=\"\"> published evidence<\/a> that Britain played a part in inciting the killings. It is estimated that at least 500,000 people were murdered between 1965 and 1966 by the Indonesian army, militias and vigilantes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/24\/survivors-of-1965-indonesia-massacres-urge-uk-to-apologise\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Observer report, families say the move would help heal country\u2019s woundsSurvivors and descendants of those massacred in Indonesia\u2019s anti-communist purge of 1965-1966 are urging the UK government to apologise for its role in what was described in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2660,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,885,2213,319,156,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cia","category-cold-war","category-foreign-policy","category-indonesia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38307,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38306\/revisions\/38307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}