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Australia complicit in Indonesia mass killings

A villager who witnessed the massacre
A villager who witnessed the massacre Source: Indonesia - Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images

An international tribunal has ruled the Australian government was complicit in mass killings committed by Indonesia in the 1960s, when an estimated 500,000 people were killed during a purge of Communists people. The Department of Foreign Affairs in Canberra however rejects the accusations. We talked about it with Fabio Scarpello, research fellow at the Murdoch University in Perth.


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An international tribunal has ruled the Australian government was complicit in mass killings committed by Indonesia in the 1960s, when an estimated 500,000 people were killed during a purge of Communists people. The Department of Foreign Affairs in Canberra however rejects the accusations. We talked about it with Fabio Scarpello, research fellow at the Murdoch University in Perth.



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