Geoffrey B. Robinson, "The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66," (Princeton University Press, 2019)

The definitive account of one of the twentieth century’s most brutal, yet least examined, episodes of genocide and detention The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century―the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965–66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in detention. An expert in modern Indonesian history, genocide, and human rights, Geoffrey Robinson sets out to account for this violence and to end the troubling silence surrounding it. In doing so, he sheds new light on broad, enduring historical questions. How do we account for instances of systematic mass killing and detention? Why are some of these crimes remembered and punished, while others are forgotten? Based on a rich body of primary and secondary sources, The Killing Season is the definitive account of a pivotal period in Indonesian history. Keywords: The Killing Season Geoffrey Robinson Indonesia 1965–66 antileftist purge Indonesian genocide and mass incarceration Modern Indonesian history and violence Twentieth-century genocide studies Antileftist violence in Indonesia Political repression in Indonesia Human rights abuses in Indonesia 1965 Historical analysis of mass killings Forgotten genocides of the 20th century Systematic mass detention in Indonesia 1965 Indonesian anti-communist purge Indonesian military and mass violence Cold War-era atrocities in Southeast Asia Silenced history of Indonesian genocide Uncovering Indonesian human rights violations Political violence in Indonesia under Suharto Global implications of Indonesian mass killings Remembering and forgetting political crimes East Asian Studies Podcast Southeast Asian Studies Podcast Indonesian History Indonesia