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The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins
9 reviews
hb97's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Genocide, Kidnapping, Murder, and Colonisation
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
trevbo97's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Sexual violence, Death, Death of parent, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Murder, Slavery, Colonisation, Genocide, Rape, Child death, and Sexual harassment
clayby's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Genocide
Moderate: Rape, War, and Sexual violence
Minor: Kidnapping, Slavery, 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
pvbobrien's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Sexual violence, Death, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Colonisation, Genocide, Police brutality, Gore, Rape, and Torture
Minor: Kidnapping and Slavery
rachbake's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Genocide, Gun violence, Violence, War, Torture, Racism, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Murder, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Death, and Colonisation
aargot1's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Rape, Murder, Violence, Death, and Colonisation
Minor: Xenophobia and Kidnapping