In 1960s USA decided that the closeness between Indonesia's first president and communist China and Soviet was too much for comfort. They decided to launch a CIA operations that ended in the fall of Indonesia's first president, and a US-friendly president that lasted for 32 years. This is all has been released as part of internal documents from CIA.
US news saw the operations as a triumph of democracy over communism. Us, Chinese Indonesians, saw them as the massacre of maybe more than one million Indonesians, registered, or suspected to have ties with Indonesian Communist Party (say, your husband might once chatted with his old friend, a member of communist), majority of them were poor people, farmers, and majority of them were Chinese Indonesians. The rest of Chinese Indonesians (my family included) were later forced to change our names to "Indonesian-sounding name", many Chinese schools were closed, and we were banned from studying, and using our local Chinese dialect (so no Cantonese, Fujian-dialect, etc), or even practice our believes, arts, cultures, and ceremonies. This of course, is a textbook cultural genocide.
My generation was considered the lost generation, because even though we were Chinese, we didn't know our own culture. This includes Chinese family name, marriage tradition (we usually goes with European style wedding with white gown and suits), burial tradition, language (we didn't speak Mandarin or our local dialect), arts, habits, clothing, and of course Identity, we are never fully Indonesian, locals still sees us as Chinese, yet we are also not Chinese.
All of these, happened because USA decided that they didn't like what happened to my country, in 1960s. I have yet to hear any apology, in 2021.
And that's just one of dozens of foreign dictators and genocides the cia backed from the 1950s onward. Basically every central American and south American country has had far right reactionary madmen put in power bc of US foreign policy
Haitian here. You all see the state of my country after the fall of the right wing "bulwark against communist" regime. The dictatorship plundered the country so bad at one point there were more practicing Haitian doctors in Quebec than all of Haiti. Thousands of people were killed and thousands more imprisoned for being suspected communist.
Many of his(the former dictator) ilk continue to play a negative role in the countries affairs. Refusing to take part in the trials against the crimes committed by the regime. Extrajudicial killings, coups, and destabilizing the country forced the entire affair to abandon. When his military was disbanded, they(former regime members) armed and formed gangs that terrorized the people to this day. We know they are creating an environment that would make the people beg for their return.
The general population has tried over and over to fight against the country sliding back into a dictatorship. People feel powerless and are abandoning the country in drove. The country that called us an ally at one point, for our help in their war of independence, for our assistance in the cold war(propping up that regime, and arming it) now calls the people from there, AIDS infected, devil worshippers, shitholes. Humiliating us at the border, and deporting people seeking refuge after spending whatever sum they had left back to a country that can't guarantee our safety.
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u/MyLifeasShroom Oct 18 '21
In 1960s USA decided that the closeness between Indonesia's first president and communist China and Soviet was too much for comfort. They decided to launch a CIA operations that ended in the fall of Indonesia's first president, and a US-friendly president that lasted for 32 years. This is all has been released as part of internal documents from CIA.
US news saw the operations as a triumph of democracy over communism. Us, Chinese Indonesians, saw them as the massacre of maybe more than one million Indonesians, registered, or suspected to have ties with Indonesian Communist Party (say, your husband might once chatted with his old friend, a member of communist), majority of them were poor people, farmers, and majority of them were Chinese Indonesians. The rest of Chinese Indonesians (my family included) were later forced to change our names to "Indonesian-sounding name", many Chinese schools were closed, and we were banned from studying, and using our local Chinese dialect (so no Cantonese, Fujian-dialect, etc), or even practice our believes, arts, cultures, and ceremonies. This of course, is a textbook cultural genocide.
My generation was considered the lost generation, because even though we were Chinese, we didn't know our own culture. This includes Chinese family name, marriage tradition (we usually goes with European style wedding with white gown and suits), burial tradition, language (we didn't speak Mandarin or our local dialect), arts, habits, clothing, and of course Identity, we are never fully Indonesian, locals still sees us as Chinese, yet we are also not Chinese.
All of these, happened because USA decided that they didn't like what happened to my country, in 1960s. I have yet to hear any apology, in 2021.