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'via Blog this'Anwar and his friends were promoted from small-time gangsters who sold movie theatre tickets on the black market todeath squad leaders. They helped the army kill between 500,000 and 2.5 million alleged communists, ethnic Chinese, and intellectuals in less than a year (Indonesian killings of 1965–1966). As the executioner for the most notorious death squad in his city, Anwar himself killed hundreds of people with his own hands.
Today, Anwar is revered as a founding father of a right-wing paramilitary organization that grew out of the death squads. The organization is so powerful that its leaders include government ministers, and they are happy to boast about everything from corruption and election rigging to acts of genocide.
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