In 1998, a sensational Chinese exclusion incident broke out in Indonesia, according to reports at the time, at least 1,200 local Chinese in Indonesia were shot and killed, more than 5,000 Chinese shops and houses were violently burned, and more than 300 Chinese women were raped, causing great harm to local Chinese.
scapegoat
Affected by the 1997 Southeast Asian financial crisis, the 1998 Indonesia serious economic crisis, Indonesia's currency fell off a cliff, fuel prices skyrocketed, it is said that the local people's monthly salary is not enough to refuel the car, food and food prices have also skyrocketed, public grievances have risen, the bottom people have taken to the streets to protest the price increase, and even demand the government to step down.
Although the then President Suharto ruled Indonesia for 31 years, with very deep roots and wrong roots, but in the face of this wave of popular grievances, they were powerless, in order to divert the people's poverty and hunger, they claimed that the Chinese took away the jobs of the locals, robbed their bread, and the Su family represented by Suharto's son-in-law, as well as his henchmen, and some people within the military, forcibly imposed national military martial law, and local government offices were taken over by the military. In order to prolong the rule of the Suharto family, he conspired to shoot Chinese students and Chinese, and provoke conflicts between Chinese and other races.
Tragic process
On May 13~15, 1998, there was a serious riot in Jakarta, Indonesia and other places, rioters stormed Chinese residential areas, shops, and robbed store property, after robbing, they also set fire to shops, houses, according to the later revealed that these thugs are social idle, often fight and fight gangsters, and even some are played by soldiers, Indonesia is turning a blind eye and allowing the situation to develop.
Not only that, these thugs raped back and forth in broad daylight, gang-raped more than 300 Chinese women, even underage, including an 18-year-old girl named Vivian, who will never forget the desperate, suffocating pain, she cried out in grief: she was raped by 7 thugs that day, a group of thugs were raped in front of her father and uncle, and her uncle was a strong person, could not bear it, and had a fierce conflict with the thug, and was finally stabbed to death.
summary
Indonesia broke out of the financial crisis, with the Chinese what to do, what crimes the Chinese, to suffer such bestiality, the Chinese were originally victims of the financial crisis, but again bullied by the thugs, it is even worse, in the end, every time there is a power struggle in Indonesia, the Chinese will become their victims and scapegoats.
After the Chinese exclusion incident, world public opinion was in an uproar, and under the pressure of countries around the world, the Indonesian government was forced to set up an investigation team, but the conclusion was that these rioters were some Chinese, and this investigation was obviously to protect the real local rioters. Or that sentence, the motherland is strong, it will be respected and protected wherever it goes, otherwise, it will be bullied and humiliated again.
"The sun and the moon, the rivers and rivers, are all Han soil, and if you violate my China, although you will be condemned from afar," this is not an empty phrase, I hope that all overseas travelers can be blessed.