Suharto (d. 27 January, 2008). this photo of him was taken when he resigned from power in 1998 (see the resignation!). but I prefer another photo:
here’s Suharto with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, bonding over Suharto’s favourite pasttime of fishing off the balmy coast of Jakarta. I like to think of this photo, place it in my mind beside the statistics of the 1965-8 massacres. here, Suharto with a fish; there, Suharto with 800,000 dead Communist sympathizers. rest in peace, General.
Suharto is Dead. So is History
So, the butcher Suharto is dead. Few will mourn the monster. Today’s Independent on Sunday carries a lengthy obituary of the man and cannot avoid discussing the horror he wrought after his takeover in 1965: Suharto then oversaw a nationwide
there doesn’t appear to be a link to his resignation embedded . . .
@ tde: sorry, it was a bad pun on resignation as an act of giving up a seat of power and resignation as crestfallen acceptance. he does look quite crestfallen in the first picture, does he not?
And let’s not forget East Timor either.
The Straits Times’ coverage of his death was obsequious and disgraceful. What’s a couple hundred thousand dead when you’ve got economic development?