September 30, 1965, this day is destined to go down in history, Indonesia broke out an unprecedented Chinese exclusion movement, also from this day, with the support of the Indonesian government, Indonesian indigenous people wantonly slaughtered Chinese, the streets were full of corpses, men were killed, women were captured and ravaged, in just a few years, more than 500,000 Chinese lost their lives, this massacre also shocked the world, and the history of it also made people smell of change, what is going on, and what caused such a tragedy?
Indonesian massacre
In 1965, the streets of Indonesia were littered with corpses, men and women, and young children, their faces covered with mud and blood, and their bodies were covered with scars, blood from the wounds kept flowing and finally came together to form an endless river.
At this time, in a house inhabited by Chinese, men, women and children huddled in a room, discussing how to get out of this hell. At this time, they had long lost their former looks, terror enveloped the whole family, and the elderly father said that he had contacted the outside world and soon they would be able to leave here, and hearing his words, his wife and children showed a relaxed expression, and with this comfort, they returned to the room, holding on to the good hope for the future, and fell asleep. But at this time, they did not notice that a red bowl appeared in front of their gate, and it was still full of blood.
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What's more terrifying is that the local people know that the red bowl is a symbol of death, and its appearance also represents that death is approaching you. Sure enough, soon after, the mansion was ransacked, and the Chinese in the house died, and their deaths were extremely tragic, blood spilled all over the stairs, and their heads were cut off, it was simply a hell on earth, who was so vicious? Their killers were Indonesia's indigenous Daya people.
The Dayaks are Indonesia's local indigenous people, and although Indonesia has entered a civilized society, there are still some tribes that retain the living habits of feudal society and primitive clans, and the Dayaks are one of them. They admired strength and loved to hunt, and this savage and ignorant people also had a traditional custom of hunting the heads of their enemies and retaliating against them, insisting that they would "pay in blood."
Before each hunt, the Dayaks would place a red bowl containing animal blood in front of the enemy's door, so that when the same tribe saw the red bowl, they would take bloody revenge on the family, and according to the national law of Indonesia at the time, they would not even have to bear any consequences.
But this kind of crazy revenge usually only happens in the struggle within their race, could it be that this family has a feud with the Daya clan, which is why it is such crazy revenge? This is not the case, this group of Dayas slaughtered more than this Chinese family, it can be said that in recent months, they have not stopped, slaughtering Chinese families everywhere, and after killing people, they will brutally cut off the heads of the victims and rob them of all the belongings in their families.
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So what deep hatred do these Dayans have with the Chinese that would treat the Chinese in such a brutal way? Why would the local police and army let them go?
Of course, the Indonesian government will not stop their murderous acts, because it is they who deliberately incite the Dayaks, provoke their hatred of the Chinese, and let them slaughter the Chinese in Indonesia. What is going on here, why does the Indonesian government target the Chinese, and what are their goals?
Crazy government
The Indonesian government deliberately provoked the hatred of the Dayak people against the Chinese, wantonly brutalized the Indonesian Chinese with their hands, and launched the bloody "Red Bowl operation", and all this is related to the Chinese exclusion campaign launched by the Indonesian government, and their slaughter of Chinese is also their long-planned plan.
Indonesians have always hated the Chinese, and one of the important reasons is the legacy of history. As a Southeast Asian island country, although Indonesia has a long history, but because of the large number of islands, coupled with the surrounding sea, there is little contact with the outside world, which also leads to the original inhabitants there although there is no obvious difference in appearance from Asians, but their living habits still maintain the characteristics of primitive or feudal ethnic groups.
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Because Indonesia has a large number of races, hundreds of different languages have been derived, which has also led to the fact that in feudal society, they have always been in a scuffle, and the country has not been unified.
In the fifteenth and sixth centuries, Europe began its voyages of maritime adventure, and Indonesia was invaded. By 1602, Indonesia had become a Dutch colony, and under Dutch rule, Indonesia's productivity and national life had increased rapidly.
Later, in order to quickly open the Indonesian trade market, the Dutch attracted many Chinese to settle down, and the people in the southern coastal areas of the mainland went to Indonesia to pan for gold.
With the decline of Dutch national strength, they gradually gave up their control over Indonesia, and later simply withdrew from Indonesia, but the Indonesian revolutionary party was unwilling, they always remembered the painful experience of being oppressed and enslaved, and now that the enemy is gone, who should they go to complain to?
At that time, many Chinese invested in factories in Indonesia, made a lot of money, and after leaving the Netherlands, they also took over many industries left by the Netherlands. As a result, many Indonesian natives who had no way to take revenge began to spread their anger on the local Chinese. They believe that the Chinese are the spokespersons of the Netherlands in Indonesia, and that the hatred is transferred to the Chinese, which is obviously impulsive and wrong.
Since then, a series of Chinese exclusion campaigns have broken out in Indonesia, but they are all small-scale, the number of participants is not large, and it has not caused too much harm.
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Until 1965, this outbreak of Chinese exclusion was unprecedentedly strong, in large part because these people had the acquiescence and support of the Indonesian government.
Why is the Indonesian government involved in the Chinese exclusion movement?
At the end of World War II, all the peoples of the world threw themselves into the wave of liberation, and soon Indonesia also achieved independence, and the Indonesian president at that time was Sukarno, known as the father of Indonesia's nation, a staunch advocate of the Non-Aligned Movement and Asian-African unity.
After the founding of New China, the relationship between the mainland and Indonesia was still good, and the Bandung Conference was held in Indonesia in 1955, and Premier Zhou put forward ten diplomatic principles, which were also supported by Indonesian countries, and it can be said that the Asian and African countries at that time were united and opposed to the hegemonism and colonial rule of the United States and the Soviet Union.
Although Indonesia looks peaceful on the outside, there are still many historical problems that have not been resolved, which has led to political instability in Indonesia.
Later in Sukarno's reign, as his health became ill, he gradually lost control of the country. In 1965, on September 30, there was a coup d'état in Indonesia, Suharto led troops to occupy the Indonesian presidential palace, in order to divert the public's vision, Suharto and others pushed everything onto the Indonesian CCP, and under his instigation, a massacre against communists was quickly set off throughout Indonesia.
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This organized "anti-communist" activity, soon spread, coupled with the local Indonesians and the Chinese have contradictions and conflicts, so many Indonesians took this opportunity, waiting for the opportunity to retaliate against the local Chinese, as the situation became more and more intense, the situation gradually lost control, the whole Indonesia fell into madness, and finally evolved into a massacre specifically targeting the Chinese, the tragedy is played out every day, there are corpses everywhere.
According to statistics, Indonesia at that time had become a hell on earth, more than 500,000 people were slaughtered, and the surface of the Solo River in Indonesia was full of corpses, and the river was also stained red with blood. The news reached the world and shocked the world, and the massacre is also regarded as one of the worst in the world.
Why did this Indonesian massacre develop so quickly, and is there any other reason besides the support of the Indonesian government? What has China done about this?
If you are weak, you will be beaten
The 1965 Indonesian massacre, which killed hundreds of thousands of people in just a few months, lasted for two years, and since then, every once in a while, there will be a Chinese exclusion, killings, and even in May 1998, Indonesia broke out a Chinese exclusion operation called the Black May Riot, resulting in the death of more than 5,000 people.
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What kind of hatred is so persistent, and why did the Indonesian authorities remain indifferent for so many years and condone the tragedy?
We know that although the Dutch colonization of Indonesia brought advanced cultural knowledge to the local population, it also brought deep harm to the Indonesian people. Later, the Dutch left, they pointed the finger at the Chinese, in addition to retaliation, the Indonesian natives also have a reason for hating the Chinese, but to put it bluntly, it is hatred of the rich.
At the end of World War II, Indonesia's domestic economic situation changed, as a coastal country, Indonesia and international trade exchanges became more frequent, and the local Chinese quickly became rich with years of accumulated work experience and their hard-working quality.
But at that time, the vast majority of Indonesia's indigenous people were still living in poverty and misery, so the gap between their rich and poor was getting bigger and bigger, which also made the contradiction between the two more and more.
Although Indonesia's Chinese population is also quite large, it is still far from many indigenous people, coupled with the local government has been strongly supporting, supporting the development of local enterprises, intentionally or unintentionally suppressing Chinese enterprises, which makes Indonesia's indigenous people more and more emboldened, they began to squeeze and suppress, and even expelled Chinese.
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The Indonesian government knows that the Chinese are innocent, but in order to consolidate its rule and calm the people's grievances, gradually as long as the anti-China campaign is launched in the country, they will find those overseas Chinese businessmen and ask them to come up with some money to block the mouths of the Indonesian people.
But as more and more such things happened, the Chinese compromised again and again, and the Indonesian authorities saw the weakness of the Chinese, and their attitude towards the Chinese changed. When the finance is out of money, it will exclude Chinese, if the domestic contradictions are sharp, it will exclude Chinese, and if you are in a bad mood, you will also exclude Chinese, it can be said that the Chinese have become an excuse for Indonesia to transfer contradictions. And because the Indonesian Chinese do not have their own armed forces and do not have a strong backing, they can only be bullied.
The "9.30 Chinese Exclusion" incident broke out, the Chinese were massacred, they were persecuted in purgatory, the wealth accumulated over the years was robbed, and most of the Chinese who barely survived chose to join Indonesian nationality.
After the outbreak of Chinese exclusion incidents in Indonesia, the mainland also took action, sending people to Indonesia four times to pick up those overseas Chinese. However, because Indonesian Chinese have been away from China for too long, many people have gone to Indonesia since their ancestors, and their living habits and language have been integrated into the local area, resulting in many people reluctant to return to China.
In addition, the new China has just been established, and there have been many problems in the country, such as the Korean War, the Great Leap Forward, the Sino-Soviet Cold War, etc., at that time, China's economic development and comprehensive national strength could not be compared with now, and the mainland wanted to rescue the Indonesian Chinese was also more than enough.
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It is precisely because of this large-scale Chinese exclusion and massacre that the relationship between China and Indonesia has been very stiff, and diplomatic relations between the two countries have not been restored until 1990. With the increase of political and economic exchanges, the two countries seem to have reconciled, but can the scars of history really be erased?
The "9.30 Chinese exclusion" incident also once again proved a truth to us, backward, weak will be bullied by others, if China at that time was strong enough, maybe Indonesia would not dare to break out that massacre at will.
This makes us understand that only when the country is prosperous and strong can we better protect its people, and as sons and daughters of China, we must keep in mind the historical mission, continue to strive and forge ahead, and jointly build a strong motherland, so that human tragedies like Indonesia will not be repeated.