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| Author | Vincent Bevins |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | PublicAffairs |
Publication date | 2020 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 978-1541742406 |
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World is a 2020 political history book by American journalist and author Vincent Bevins. It concerns U.S. government support for and complicity in anti-communist mass killings around the world and their aggregate consequences from the Cold War until the present era. The title is a reference to Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, during which an estimated one million people were killed in an effort to destroy the political left and movements for government reform in the country.
The book goes on to describe subsequent replications of the strategy of mass murder, against government reform and economic reform movements in Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere.[1][2] The killings in Indonesia by the American-backed Indonesian forces were so successful in culling the left and economic reform movements that the term "Jakarta" was later used to refer to the genocidal aspects of similar later plans implemented by other authoritarian capitalist regimes with the assistance of the United States.[3][4]
- ^ Bevins, Vincent (29 May 2020). "Opinion | The 'Liberal World Order' Was Built With Blood". The New York Times.
- ^ Pagliarini, Andre (5 June 2020). "Where America Developed a Taste for State Violence". The New Republic. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
- ^ "Lifting the veil on 1965 mass murder of Indonesian communists". South China Morning Post. 28 June 2020.
- ^ "Vincent Bevins: The 'Mass Murder Program' Behind America's Rise to Power". Scheerpost. 2 June 2020. Retrieved 15 February 2021.