Appalling Slaughter of Communists

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from Pat Jordan It is about timo that there was some movement of protest in this country about the appalling slaughter of communists and others in Indonesia. The carnage is on 4 much higher level than even the Vietmam war, and when we realise that these people are being killed and maimed for their . political ideas we also see that we have a duty to protest, A recont issue of The Economist had this to say: "The rooting out of the PKI has gone further and deeper than even the army had expected...Deaths from the army's mopping up operations have been relatively few. Killing by kris and club has taken the heaviest toll. Estimates of the mumbers of killings since October range from 87,000 = officially admitted by the president to gossip of 350,000, Ghoulish rumours of log~jams of bodies. in the rivers of Solo and Malan have reached Jakarta but there is no official confirmation or denial, Army sources estimate the deaths at between 185,000 and 250,000, In the East Java district of Malan a welfare organisation has already registered 400,000 children orphaned since October,, The scourge has spread to Bali, Sumatra and the Celebes..ceccs"