A
non-binding international tribunal at The Hague has ruled that Australia, the
UK and the United States were complicit in 1965 mass killings and human rights
atrocities in Indonesia. During that period, some 500,000 to one million people
died in one of the bloodiest massacres of the 20th century. What began as a
purge of communists after a failed coup attempt, went on to encompass ethnic
Chinese and alleged leftists, which led to the massacre being referred to as
"politicide." July 21
The Indonesian killings of 1965–1966 (sometimes referred to
as the Indonesian Massacres, Indonesian Genocide, or Indonesian Politicide)
were large-scale killings which occurred in Indonesia over many months,
targeting communists, ethnic Chinese and alleged leftists, often at the
instigation of the armed forces and government. Initially it began as an
anti-communist purge following a controversial coup by the army (30
September Movement) in Indonesia. The most widely accepted estimates are
that between 500,000 to more than one million people were killed, with some
estimates as high as two to three million. The massacres began in October 1965,
in the weeks following the coup attempt, and reached their peak over the
remainder of the year before subsiding in the early months of 1966. They
started in the capital, Jakarta.
Readers will recall that 1965-1966 was a period when there
was a Uranus-Pluto conjunction – a combination that we associate with upheavals,
revolutions and the collapse of old orders. But interestingly, Saturn also
opposed this conjunction so that violence and brutality was to be expected. As
part of this triple dance, Saturn opposed Uranus on April 1, 1965. At Jakarta,
the opposition fell exactly on the horizon axis accompanied by Mars and Pluto
with Uranus on the Ascendant. (In a strange coincidence, the opposition also
aligned with the meridian axis of Indonesia’s national chart [1]). All this was
virtually a powder keg waiting to be ignited. The ignition took place on 30
September when the progressed Ascendant reached a conjunction to Saturn thereby
aligning the opposition once again with the horizon axis. Thereafter all hell
broke loose.
Saturn in the April 1, 1965 chart above is amidst the stars
of the Aquarian Water Bearer. Diana
Rosenberg links with “brutal attacks and expression of race and religious
prejudice as well as responses to them”. With Neptune currently transiting over
the radix Saturn, the judgement of the international tribunal at The Hague comes as a healing response.
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