from John Pullman
Calling the Indonesian massacre of over 300,000 anti-imperialists "the Second Biggest Crime of the Century", the organisation TYouth Against War and Fascism’ has called for an international commission to be created to fix responsibility for the crime. They have scheduled a public meeting at McMillin Hall of Colombia University, calling 4t : a 'Public Inqest Into the Mass Murder in Indonesia' they have dramatised the blood purge and raised the important question of C.I.A. involvement. Bertrand Russell, adding some evidence of his own on this score, congratulated the youth for starting this international investigation. Some sources(such as 'The Times') now put the figure of dead as high as 500,000. "More people have been murdered in Indonesia" said the group's statement,"than have died in l5years of war in Vietnam. Indonesian deaths are at least twice the combined toll of Nagasaki and Hiroshima." A large number of educationists, editors, scholars and other prominent public figures have already responded to YAWF'‘s campaigne