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I’ve read The Jakarta Method myself, I can state it’s quite a good read and has much information about the 1965 massacre in Indonesia and its atrocities. Although it’s surprisingly good in some aspects, being written by a (ex?) WaPo journalist, it has the usual Soviets bad trope and iirc it criticized Mao at one point, but it’s easy to filter.
Yeah he does have some weird takes from time to time but I figured he just isn’t a communist (yet). His takes on the general situation is pretty good.
Yeah, he’s a WaPo journalist.