JAKARTA: Indonesian activists boycotted a state-backed forum on the anti-communist purge of 1965, a day after a senior minister said the government would not apologise for the one of the darkest periods in Indonesia's history.
Some historians and activists says at least 500,000 people were killed in violence that started in late 1965 after then-general Suharto and the military took power following an abortive communist coup. A million or more people were jailed, suspected of being communists.
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