Declassified files have revealed new details of U.S. government knowledge and support of an Indonesian army extermination campaign that killed several hundred thousand civilians during anti-communist hysteria in the mid-1960s. The thousands of files from the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta covering 1963-66 were made public after a declassification review that began under the Obama administration.
Just adding a bit context here: the US supported a party that slaughtered 100.000–1.000.000 in 1966, declassified the information in 2001 and another part in 2017 with the reasoning, that they need to take responsibility for it 50 years later.
No idea where you get the 500.000 from.
The article is almost 10 years old.
Now my opinion: while the US did some shady stuff in the last century, their way of dealing with it now, is decent. Not on the level Germany is dealing with it, but far better than other countries, for example Russia, Japan or China – which still are suppressing discussion of all the shady stuff they did.
Just adding a bit context here: the US supported a party that slaughtered 100.000–1.000.000 in 1966, declassified the information in 2001 and another part in 2017 with the reasoning, that they need to take responsibility for it 50 years later.
No idea where you get the 500.000 from.
The article is almost 10 years old.
Now my opinion: while the US did some shady stuff in the last century, their way of dealing with it now, is decent. Not on the level Germany is dealing with it, but far better than other countries, for example Russia, Japan or China – which still are suppressing discussion of all the shady stuff they did.