General Suharto of Indonesia is fading fast, the news bulletins say. So when I came into the country, I started asking how people felt about their dying killer. (Body count, circa one million plus, overwhelmingly civilian). The first man I ran into—near a coffee/rice stall—though the radio blared the death watch, said nothing about it, until I raised it. “So much the better,” he smiled. Even people I know well did not bother to mention it, though they know I follow politics. One market lady had just described her own recent ailments—decades of squatting and pounding grain take a toll—when I asked about Suharto. ”Suharto?” she said. “He ate too much money. He’s full. He a... See full document!

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General Suharto of Indonesia. One Small Man Leaves a Million Corpses.	ANairn	Document	Critical	1529	4.5	15-Jan-08
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