[news] Government Leaders Pay Tribute to Indonesia’s Former Dictator Suharto

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

By Peter Symonds | World Socialist Web Site

The death of former Indonesian dictator **Suharto** on Sunday at the age of 86 has elicited a stream of tributes from world leaders and in the international press. There is something both disturbing and ominous about praise for a man who was responsible for the murder of at least half a million people in the 1965 coup that brought him to power and the deaths of another 200,000 following the 1975 Indonesian annexation of **East Timor**.  


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