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Vincent Bevins: The Jakarta Method (Paperback, 2021, PublicAffairs) 5 stars

In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. …

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I think most will find this book eye opening. During the Cold War, the U.S. government helped reactionaries in Indonesia slaughter a million communists. They then repeated that approach (the Jakartra Method) in Brazil. This book gets into the weeds, but it does a nice job of balancing personal accounts of victims with the bigger picture history.