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Grand Historian
About this thread in general- during the 1960s massacre of "Communists", the majority of the 600,000 "Communist" suspects who were massacred were Indonesian Muslims, alot of Indonesian Communists were abangan Muslims, not Chinese. The attacks on Chinese affected alot of them, but far fewer Chinese died in general than other Indonesians.
During the 1990s-2000s massacres, there were a whole groups of different people massacring each other- the reason was that Suharto's regime fell and the economy was falling- Chinese were indeed massacred, but so were many other groups- Pagan Dayaks and Muslim Malays massacred Madurese Muslims in Kalimantan, Christian and Muslim Sulaweis massacred each other, Indonesians massacring Timorese, etc.
Why are only killings of Chinese being emphasized, when way more non-Chinese died than Chinese in these massacres? there are two kinds of people -
The first, are people who hate Chinese people. They seek to prove that Chinese people are hated everywhere and claim that only Chinese are getting massacred in these incidents in SEA, ignoring the fact that other people hate each other even more (Dayaks hatred for Madurese). (In Vietnam, the Vietnamese government didn't just mistreat Chinese, it also mistreated and massacred Montagnards and Hmong) (in Burma, the Burmese in the 1960s didn't just massacre Chinese, they also massacred others) (In Philippines, native Igorots, Lumads, and Moros are discriminated against in addition to Chinese)
The second, are people like Lux, they whine themselves being victims and have a victim mentality complex, and seek to monopolize all the attention on themselves.
And China isn't the only country which doesn't do anything for diasporas. In the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution, Black African Christians from mainland Africa under John Okello overthrew the island Arab Sultanate of Zanzibar, and massacred the Arab and Indian populations, establishing a Zanzibar Republic. Several thousand Arabs were killed in cold blood. The local Black African Muslims took advantage of the invasion and seized power from the Arabs, because for quite a while before the revolution, they had been stirring discontent and agitating to overthrow the Arab dominated Sultanate. Although the resulting Black African Muslim (leftists aligned with the Soviets) who took control of Zanzibar like the Marxist Umma party and Afro-Shirazi Party did not directly participate in the massacre, they were still anti Sultanate and benefited from the overthrow. The Black African Muslims under their new Black African Muslim President Abeid Karume then initiated anti-Arab policies and de-Arabization.
Some socialist Arab nationalist regimes like Egypt, aligned with the Soviet block, even recognized the new "socialist" Zanzibar Republic and congragulated Karume on the overthrow of the "feudal" Arab Sultanate, and offered assistance and maintained friendly relations.
The Arab Nationalist leader of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser (Jamal Abd al-Nasir) visited the new Zanzibar Republic in the aftermath of the overthrow and massacre of Arabs, and took pictures with President Karume and congragulated him.
If the PRC did that to a leader who openly oversaw the massacre of Chinese, would Lux be complaining?
Between Social Skills and Marketable Skills: The Politics of Islamic ... - Roman Loimeier - Google Books
History of Zanzibar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Okello - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Here is graphic footage of the massacres on Zanzibar.
