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The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins
12 reviews
careinthelibrary's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Genocide, War, and Hate crime
Moderate: Sexual violence, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Rape, Torture, Death, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Sexual assault, and Racism
pookiee's review against another edition
5.0
Everyone should read this since the effects of USA’s intervention in foreign democracies are still seen everywhere. My fellow Americans especially can benefit from it as it’s a huge part of our recent history that is missing from our curriculum.
Graphic: Genocide, Torture, and War
Moderate: Racism
Minor: Rape
roy_gorbison's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Sexual violence, Genocide, Torture, and Racism
knenigans's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Colonisation, Genocide, and Murder
Moderate: Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Death, Torture, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, and War
lillyrb's review against another edition
5.0
The book has many mentions of war, colonialism, violence, kidnapping, sexual violence and slavery. None of it is very graphic but it can be very uncomfortable and triggering.
Minor: Torture, Violence, Rape, Kidnapping, Colonisation, Genocide, Suicide, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, and War
cinnaminskies's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Racism, War, Police brutality, Hate crime, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Mass/school shootings, Grief, Rape, Torture, Violence, Racial slurs, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, Deportation, Death, Child death, Blood, Suicide, and Sexual violence
random19379's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Violence, Torture, Genocide, Murder, Rape, War, Xenophobia, Racism, Sexism, Racial slurs, Suicide, and Death
zoinkie's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Hate crime, Murder, Racism, Torture, Violence, War, and Xenophobia
ddnreads's review against another edition
5.0
(Sure, I'm not that naive to believe that it's true TRUE, but the EXTENT of what actually happened scared the f out of me.)
Frustrating and sad for it was always the powerless who were killed, raped, and slaughtered. And in the name of what?
Who get the most benefits out of this? For whose purpose do my people had to suffer this much?
It left me utterly devastated.
(bcs in the end my country is still a corruption plague, overpopulated nation with unsolved trauma)
Taking the international approach, this book told a neat chronological order of what's happening around the world during 1960s. It helped me to understand the pattern, the agenda, and in the end the propaganda to eliminate communism.
It talked about what happened in Brazil, Guatemala, Philippines, and Chiles. Since this kind of book is out of my comfort zone, I thought it would be hard for me to digest its content, but IT ACTUALLY MAKES SO MUCH SENSE. How the culture shaped the nation and took part of its violence.
This war of ideology took too much out of everything and everyone.
It also revealed the people and organization responsible behind those inhumane acts.
The 'method' revealed made me nauseous. Never once I thought that the city in my country could be the blueprint for wanton slaughters in other parts of the world.
Wishing the reconsolidation could be done in the most justifiable way.
Disclaimer: I'm very new on this left right discourse, so this book served its novelty brilliantly. Eye opening for me~
The most frightening part: I used to believe those lies. Hating PKI and thinking they deserved to be eliminated. Even after more than 20+ years, the story was ingrained and the horrors and paradigm never really left.
Idk Im just so glad that I read it. Hearing the others side of the story, not matter how frustrating it turned out in the end. At least for me, now I know better.
Graphic: Genocide, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, War, Violence, Confinement, Murder, Physical abuse, Slavery, Death, Gun violence, Racism, Rape, Body horror, Colonisation, and Torture
aznvlma's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Sexual violence, Gun violence, Rape, Racism, Child death, Genocide, Grief, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Colonisation, War, and Police brutality