Asia would be a different place today. There was a great deal more contact between the anti-Communist forces in that country and at least one very high official in Washington before and during the Indonesian massacre than is generally realized. The ambassador's report was dated December 1964. It should be remembered that Indonesia had been a colony of the Netherlands, and the Dutch still had some special links to the country. The government administers the nation on the level of Chicago gangsters of the 1930s running a protection racket.
Political prisoners overflow the jails.