Petrus killings

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2nd President of Indonesia Pre-Presidency Early life and career Military service Japanese occupation National Revolution Operation Product Madiun Affair Operation Kraai General Offensive Makassar Uprising Post-Independence Rise to power 30 September Movement Commander of Kopkamtib Mass killings Supersemar Political manoeuvring Acting Presidency "New Order" Inauguration Cabinets First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Golkar Dwifungsi Aspri Angkatan 66 Berkeley Mafia Elections 1971 1977 1982 1987 1992 1997 1999 Domestic policy Chinese discrimination Malari incident Petition of Fifty Tanjung Priok massacre Petrus killings Foreign policy Act of Free Choice East Timor Invasion Occupation Genocide Santa Cruz massacre ASEAN Downfall Background 27 July 1996 incident Asian financial crisis Trisakti shootings May 1998 riots Resignation Post-presidency Corruption charges Illness and death Family Siti Hartinah (wife and first lady) Children Tutut Sigit Bambang Titiek Tommy Mamiek Gallery: Picture, Sound, Video
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The Petrus killings (portmanteau of Penembakan Misterius) were a series of extrajudicial executions in Indonesia that occurred between 1983 and 1985 under President Suharto's New Order regime. Without undergoing a trial, thousands of criminals and other offenders (including alleged political dissents) were killed by undercover Indonesian Army death squads and secret police forces. Their bodies were then placed in public places which terrorized an unaware populace.^[1] The executions were part of a government effort to reduce crime and estimates of the death toll have ranged from 300 to 10,000.