Suharto is dead

[MonkeyFunk]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22862325/

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Former dictator Suharto, an army general who crushed Indonesia's communist movement and pushed aside the country's founding father to usher in 32 years of tough rule that saw up to a million political opponents killed, died Sunday. He was 86.

"He has died," Dr Christian Johannes said, adding that he died at 1.10 p.m



good riddance.

[krispos42]

1. Awwwwwww....

:nopity:

[Tom Joad]

2. what can i say?

[bicentennial_baby]

3. w00t!

Good riddance fucker... :D

[derby378]

4. He escaped justice...

Pity. Let's see if he can outrun the Divine.

[Richard D]

5. It would be, well, unkind . . .

. . . to say something like "may he rot in hell", but heck, may he rot in hell.

[Warpy]

6. I just hope he realized it had all been for nothing at the end

and that he'd take none of his wealth and power with him.

[trashcanistanista]

7. Another scumbag bites the dust.

[donheld]

8. Good Riddance indeed n/t

[d_b]

9. rest in piss

[Zynx]

10. Can I shit on his grave once he's in the ground?

[Cleita]

11. We don't have any right to criticize murderous world rulers

as long as Bush/Cheney don't have justice served to them.

[MonkeyFunk]

12. bullshit

there's no equivalence whatsoever.

[Cleita]

13. Really?

Have you compared Bush/Cheney's violations of human rights and death count with Suharto's? I think you will find proportional equivalency.

[MonkeyFunk]

15. Yes, really

it's not even worth discussing.

And yes, I can judge his dictatorship, regardless of what happens with Bush and Cheney.

[Cleita]

17. We have major criminals committing international crimes in the

name of America and no one is making them accountable. We cannot throw rocks at other criminals when our own house is made of glass. But the American people have always been guilty of this type of provincialism. I think that this time we will pay the piper if we don't correct our mistakes.

[robbedvoter]

25. I didn't elect ours - done all a citizen can do to express my views

I feel entitled to express opinions on ALL tyrants. Ours and theirs. And express I will.

[Rex]

29. You know it is possible to loath someone elses dead dictator and

still hate our own as well. Just sayin...

[Cleita]

30. Of course but we shouldn't be so snooty about it. Just saying

that we need to look into our own house for criminals first. We have absolutely no high ground to stand on right now. Also, wasn't he one of our "friends" at one time, kind of like Musharrah is one of our "friends" now? We do have history of propping up brutal dictators who allow us to exploit their country and people for our own interests, which makes us no better than them.

[Rex]

34. You use the term we liberally, none of us want GWB there in the WH

None of us here want any dictator in charge of anything. Yes, we do have a horrible history and should work for a change into a more progressive way of living. We should, yes and us here on DU do. Don't you agree?

[Cleita]

35. Evidently many of us did vote for the Congressional majority

that was supposed to investigate him and were suddenly informed that impeachment was off the table and it seems investigations as well. So I would say we are all guilty for not forcing change in the system that puts corporate tools of both parties in office.

[Rex]

37. You can't change the system, it is rigged.

Goodluck with that one.

[arcos]

16. He's not my President...

Thank goodness :)

(I do an asshole for President though, but at least he's not a murderous piece of shit)

[robbedvoter]

24. Ummm- ours may be bigger, but still - it's not like we elected them or anything

[Cleita]

28. Suharto wasn't elected either I don't think but gained power

through methods both devious and brutal.

[Binka]

14. Call The Trash Man

Nasty garbage needs hauling out.

[shadowknows69]

18. Why do the most evil fucks always get to live so long?

[MonkeyFunk]

19. I know

that does seem to be the case, doesn't it? Pol Pot, Pinochet, Kissinger, now Suharto?

Maybe evil is an anti-oxidant?

[dipsydoodle]

20. He died after slipping into a comma

Now he's just a full stop.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB128/index.htm All done with the USA's help. No further comment.

[fujiyama]

21. Good fucking riddance

I wonder if that piece of human garbage Kissinger will give his eulogy.

[Tatiana]

22. Ditto. n/t

[malaise]

23. Good riddance

The right wing of the world have already begun to deify him on BBC.
Fuck all of them.

[xchrom]

26. well that was a long time coming -- buh-bye now.

[dipsydoodle]

27. The lasting legacy of Suharto

The bloodshed which accompanied his rise to power, after a mysterious coup attempt in 1965 which he blamed on Indonesia's then-powerful Communist Party, was on a scale matched only in Cambodia in this region.

Within the space of a few months at least half a million people were slaughtered in anti-communist pogroms that, at the very least, Suharto and the military tacitly encouraged.
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The spectre of a communist revival was used time and again, right up to the end of his rule, to discredit dissidents, even though the party was completely destroyed in the 1960s.

In the wake of those killings, 200,000 people were detained, half of who remained in prison for more than a decade, most without trial.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7183191.stm

[applegrove]

31. Ding Dong the Witch is dead. LOL!

[Initech]

32. Another one bites the dust! Another one bites the dust!

[U4ikLefty]

33. So it's okay to dance on Suhartos's grave but not Reagan's???

I'm confused and I'm sure some fine DUer will explain the difference to me. :popcorn:

[Cleita]

36. I'll dance on Reagan's grave and old man Bush's when the

time comes if you let me.

[U4ikLefty]

38. May I ask you for that dance in advance???

[Initech]

39. I'll gladly dance on Reagan's.

Hell didn't Reagan's administration install a lot of these dictators like Shutaro and Pinochet?

[Solon]

40. Well no, but he supported and helped install others...

Both of those predate the Reagan administration.