{"id":40990,"date":"2022-01-23T18:15:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T09:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/23\/uks-propaganda-leaflets-inspired-1960s-massacre-of-indonesian-communists"},"modified":"2022-01-23T18:15:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T09:15:18","slug":"uks-propaganda-leaflets-inspired-1960s-massacre-of-indonesian-communists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40990","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s propaganda leaflets inspired 1960s massacre of Indonesian communists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pamphlets attacked the president and foreign minister<\/p>\n<p>Shocking new details have emerged of Britain\u2019s role in one of the most brutal massacres of the postwar 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>Last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/17\/slaughter-in-indonesia-britains-secret-propaganda-war\" title=\"\">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=\"\"> revealed<\/a> how British officials secretly deployed black propaganda in the 1960s to incite prominent Indonesians to \u201ccut out\u201d the \u201ccommunist cancer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/23\/uks-propaganda-leaflets-inspired-1960s-massacre-of-indonesian-communists\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pamphlets attacked the president and foreign ministerShocking new details have emerged of Britain\u2019s role in one of the most brutal massacres of the postwar 20th century.Last year the Observer revealed how British officials secretly deployed black propa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2649,"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":[41,662,1879,156,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-communism","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-indonesia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40990","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\/2649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40991,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40990\/revisions\/40991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}