This plan successfully combated inflation in Argentina and Chile. But the IMF didn't like Professor Hanke or his plan. Both the IMF and U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin vehemently opposed the establishment of a currency board. In its efforts to control the wealth of Indonesia, the IMF went to great lengths to topple Suharto and put its own puppets in power. On May 21, Suharto resigned.
Resignation is better than assassination.
Dinka villages in the south were overrun by hordes of government soldiers, supported by the Mujahadeen and the Murahaleen, an Arabized raiding tribe. Armed with government-provided Kalashnikov rifles, they arrived in vehicles fitted with machine guns. Baroness Caroline Cox, a Christian human rights leader and member of the British Parliament's House of Lords, visited the area shortly after the massacre. She reported seeing hundreds of corpses strewn in villages that had been raided within the past few weeks and feared that the number of dead could rise to thousands. Her report indicated that what she saw were the worst atrocities she had ever witnessed in her travels around the world in giving aid to oppressed Christians.