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Vannessa Hearman

Vannessa Hearman

Dr Vannessa Hearman is the author of Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia (Singapore: NUS Press, 2018).

“The Santa Cruz Massacre, Thirty Years On” Symposium

Today in my city… Mothers crying …their tears water the flowers that scatter on the gravestones of Santa Cruz Cemetery Their bodies have disappeared from our side But their names are imprinted in the heart of the Timorese People Egas Alves, “Today in my city,” 31 May 1995 On 12 November 1991, Indonesian soldiers shot […]

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Reconstructing the history of the anti-communist violence in East Java, Indonesia

On 30th September 1965, a group of army officers and soldiers called the Thirtieth September Movement abducted and killed seven army officers, and disposed of their bodies in a disused well, at Lubang Buaya, on the outskirts of Jakarta. While predominantly a movement of progressive soldiers and officers, the Thirtieth September Movement, as John Roosa

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