Fritz Tucker, Zeteo Associate Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 18 July 2013 A new documentary “The Act of Killing” about the anti-communist genocide in Indonesia was just released. An article in Gawker describes some of the making of it: Director Joshua Oppenheimer had Indonesian gangsters stage reenactments of the mass killings they took part in during the 1965-1966 anti-communist purge, which left an estimated half million people dead, complete with their own scripts, elaborate […]

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