BOOK REVIEW The 1965 Indonesian coup: a flawed account*

  PRETEXT FOR MASS MURDER: The September 30th Movement and Suharto’s Coup d’Etat in Indonesia by John Roosa (University of Wisconsin Press) Paperback: 344 pages ISBN: 9780299220341 Price: AUD$47.90    Reviewed by Patrick Morgan In the 1960s, commentators loved rubbishing the domino theory, the notion that each South East Asian nation that toppled towards communism made it easier for others to fall. Some were falling, but the failed 1965 communist coup i…

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