A decade ago, Joshua Oppenheimer filmed two men by an Indonesian riverbank as they recounted their part in a political genocide. The army had seized power in 1965, organizing gangs and Muslim groups to kill up to a million suspected leftists. As Oppenheimer described the scene in an email: Two aging death squad leaders take me to a riverbank, reenacting with apparent glee how they helped the army to kill 10,500 people at a single clearing on the banks of the Snake River. At the end, they pose fo...
A decade ago, Joshua Oppenheimer filmed two men by an Indonesian riverbank as they recounted their part in a political genocide. The army had seized power in 1965, organizing gangs and Muslim groups to kill up to a million suspected leftists. As Oppenheimer described the scene in an email: Two aging death squad leaders take me to a riverbank, reenacting with apparent glee how they helped the army to kill 10,500 people at a single clearing on the banks of the Snake River. At the end, they pose fo...
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