The attempted coup on September 30, 1965, in Indonesia, was a bloody affair. As many as 500,000 people may have been killed, with most of the victims executed by the Indonesian military and paramilitaries.
The attempted coup was led by a group of left-wing Indonesian military officers calling themselves the September 30th Movement (G30S). The group seized control of several key government buildings in the capital city of Jakarta, and announced that they were overthrowing the government of President Sukarno.…