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Kutip:
Hello, X. I don't know a CIA link offhand - just type "central intelligence agency" into your search engine, you will turn up something useful.
I'm not very familiar with the history of Indonesia.
If you do enough reading you will gradually get a sense of what took place & what accounts are reliable.
Naturally any kind of official or semi-official government-published
material has to be used with great caution. In general, independent scholarship is the most trustworthy.
There are a number of reasons why some historical events have not been well publicized in the West. Racism & ethnocentrism are two. Africa, Asia, & Latin America are normally at the bottom of the list for news coverage here.
Over 30,000 civilians were killed recently in a UNITA rebel seige of an Angolan city, an event that went virtually unregarded in the US mainline media.
Another reason for large chunks of modern history being "missing" is that events involving war crimes & crimes against humanity committed by Washington, US corporations, & "Allied" states are in effect banned from our commercial media.
In other cases, the details were not known until some time later. There is a recent book out in the US titled THE RAPE OF NANKING, detailing Japanese military atrocities in that Chinese city.
This book has received a lot of publicity, which tends to further obscure the role of Western occupation & domination of China, including how Britain forced the importation of opium.
Western aggression against China for the sake of corporate profits caused the rise of Chinese Communist resistance & contributed to the ruinous Southeast Asian Wars following WWII.
But a book retailing the sins of the Japanese naturally sells much better in the US market than one which implicates the West in some responsibility for its own problems.
Our basic insecurity & megalomania drive us to believe that we are the "good guys" & are never wrong; we blame others for all of our difficulties. For that delusion we pay a high price.
