Declassified files have revealed new details of U.S. government knowledge and support of an Indonesian army extermination campaign that killed several hundred thousand civilians during anti-communist hysteria in the mid-1960s. The thousands of files from the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta covering 1963-66 were made public after a declassification review that began under the Obama administration.
U.S. gov’t support for the mass murder of civilians to further its political goals? Why, who would ever have thought …?
I know like anyone is surprised like honestly I am sure there is far worse we have done.