II. Obama the Criminal ‘The Look of Silence’ Contributes to Removing Obama from the Presidency by Stephanie Ezrol Feb. 16—Most Americans don’t know his- tory. Those who think they do, often know it only in the foggiest way, often substituting detail, or detail shrouded in myth, for the actual scientific-classically artistic creative development of mankind. Benjamin Frank- lin was known as the modern Prometheus, because he dared to challenge the British Empire’s Zeus. Many Americans know we fought and won a war of independence against the anti-human policies of the British Empire. Fewer know that the British Empire was then destroying India, and moving to- wards its opium war against China. “The Look of Silence,” a full-length doc- Courtesy of Drafthouse Films and Participant Media umentary film, presents the viewer with a The massacre of up to a million Indonesians in 1965-1966 in a slow-motion painful and candid view of the Satanic caul- coup against President Sukarno—part of a crucial chapter in Barack Obama’s childhood—is spelled out in Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary dron of cold-blooded murder in which our The Look of Silence. Here, for the documentary, Adi Rukin questions President was raised. When Obama’s secret Commander Amir Siahaan, one of the death squad leaders responsible for his “Kill List” made major headlines in 2012, brother’s death in the genocide. demonstrating the perverse joy Obama expe- rienced while deciding whom to kill through drone as- father of the Republic, were declared to be communists. sassination that week, why wasn’t he removed under the The army under coup-leader General Suharto, turned 25th Amendment or through impeachment proceedings? many of these imprisoned men and women over to free- Most Americans, although cognizant of the War in lance militarized groups to be tortured and murdered, Vietnam, know little about the British Empire’s role in when the army did not, or could not do the killing them- getting us mired in that disaster. Even fewer know any- selves. Most of the killers who were not themselves in thing about the cold-blooded mass murder of a half mil- the military, were either crazed anti-communist fanat- lion to a million Indonesian civilians over a less than ics, or, in many cases, ordinary citizens who were told six-month period from October 1965 to Spring 1966, as to either kill or be killed. American troop levels in Vietnam increased from a few Barack Obama’s stepfather, Col. Lolo Soetoro, was thousand to hundreds of thousands. clearly one of those officers in the military who was Over that six-month period in Indonesia, ordinary instructed to kill the “communists,” to “purify” the citizens were rounded up and imprisoned. The follow- nation. He virtually bragged of this to his stepson ers of the President of Indonesia, Sukarno, the hero of Barack (see below). This was the environment of blood- the revolution against the Dutch colonialists and the lust and mass murder in which the young Barack Obama February 19, 2016 EIR Moral Fitness To Survive 35 sands of other victims. Adi decided, with Oppenheimer’s support, to break the taboo of talking about the massacre, seeking out the killers (who were well-known and are often leaders in the community even today), interviewing them on the slaughter. He was not seeking vengeance, but hoped to elicit remorse from those who had killed his brother and many others. Instead, he finds that the executioners, on screen, describe with delight how they killed and tortured people—using ma- chetes to slice off heads and penises of people who are begging for mercy—acting out the murders and laughing for the camera. Two different, now elderly, execu- tioners speak about how they drank the blood of their victims after killing them. This, they explained, would keep them AP Photo/Obama Presidential Campaign from going crazy, as many of their fellow Barack Obama’s step-father, Lolo Soetoro, was one of the killers. Left to right: killers did. In the opening minutes of the Soetoro, Obama’s mother Ann Dunham, his sister Maya, and Obama aged nine. film, an executioner, sitting in his living room, speaks about the 1965-66 events: was raised, from about his sixth to his tenth year, 1966- “My men were afraid of blood. So I choked him like 71, in a household that was still participating, or had this (demonstrating in front of the camera). His tongue just participated in the massacre. came out . I ripped him open. His intestines spilled Joshua Oppenheimer, the director of the documen- out. Another one—I threw him. He landed on a rock tary film “The Look of Silence,” released in 2015 and cracked his skull. He tried to hold his head to- (DVD, January 2016) and nominated for an Academy gether.” Award for “best documentary,” began filming inter- The film then displays the following text on the views with regional and local death squad commanders screen: “In 1965, the Indonesian government was over- and executioners in 2003. He told them he was making thrown by the military. Anybody opposed to the mili- a Hollywood film in which they could tell their stories. tary dictatorship could be accused of being a commu- Oppenheimer told an interviewer in 2015, “The pro- nist: union members, landless farmers, and intellectuals. duction of ‘The Act of Killing’ [his first documentary, In less than a year, over one million ‘communists’ were released in 2012] had become famous across North Su- murdered—and the perpetrators still hold power matra—they produced the TVRI talk show hyping it in throughout the country.” the middle of production.” It documented two leaders Declassified documents from Britain, Australia, and of the death squads who had proudly agreed to re-enact the U.S. State Department and CIA present the Western their murders, demonstrating how they dragged ac- involvement in horrifying detail, documenting that cused communists (meaning any follower of Sukarno) these western governments openly encouraged and off to private detention, and their slow torture and supported the slaughter, and afterwards participated in murder of their victims. blacking out coverage of the greatest genocide since the His new documentary, “The Look of Silence,” fol- Nazis. lows the efforts of a courageous young Indonesian, Adi The British geopolitical goal was the containment Rukin of Sumatra, whose brother Ramli was a leader of or outright destruction of China. Sukarno in 1955 had the local PKI (Indonesian Communist Party). Ramli co-sponsored the Bandung Conference (the Asia- had been brutally tortured, twice, before being muti- Africa Conference)—the first meeting of the formerly lated, killed, and thrown in the river along with thou- colonized nations of Asia and Africa without the pres- 36 Moral Fitness To Survive EIR February 19, 2016 ence of their former colonial died, but Adi then interviewed masters. A major concern of the his wife and two sons. Bandung Conference was to Oppenheimer reports in a prevent a new world war sparked review with the Guardian on by a U.S. war on China. Zhou June 27, 2015: “Towards the Enlai represented China at the end of the film, Adi also con- conference, establishing peace- fronts the family of Amir ful agreements with the partici- Hasan, who died not long after pants based on mutual respect being filmed re-enacting Adi’s for the sovereignty and develop- brother’s killing. Hasan’s wife ment policies of each nation. and sons react with a mixture This was viewed as an existen- of denial and outrage, and the tial danger to the British Empire, scene ends abruptly when one and its assets in the United States son calls the police (which was led by John Foster Dulles. To- not shown in the film).” gether they launched the process Hasan had personally illus- that resulted ten years later in a trated a book about his murders. rampage of murder so wide and “I made sketches to bring the so brutal that no one would miss story to life,” he proclaimed on the point. The slaughter in Indo- JFK Library screen. He explained that they Indonesian President Sukarno opens a present nesia coincided with the encir- from President Kennedy. dumped the bodies of their vic- clement of China known tims in the river. “Nobody as the Vietnam War. would buy fish or clams. Soon after his inaugura- Nobody would eat fish. tion in 1961, President John The fish were eating Kennedy invited President human bodies.” Sukarno to visit the United When the Hasan family States. Then, between July was presented, in their 1963 and August 1963, the own living room, with British deliberately double- Amir Hasan’s taped boast- crossed the agreements ing of these killings and made, with JFK’s blessing, his book about it, the sons between Sukarno and UN begged for silence: “Ev- Secretary-General U Thant. Museum KAA Bandung eryone around here is After JFK’s assassination At the Asia-Africa Conference in Bandung, Indonesia, in 1955. friends. Even if their par- in November of 1963, the Left to right: Chinese Foreign Minister Zhou Enlai; Indonesian ents were killed, we’re all operation against Sukarno President Sukarno; and Egyptian Prime Minister and good friends. Now the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council Gamal went into high gear. Abdel Nasser. wound is open. Because Joshua [Oppenheimer] Case Studies in Satanic Murders makes this film and my father wrote this book—other- A man named Amir Hasan had demonstrated while wise, you wouldn’t know me, right?” Oppenheimer was filming, how he had mutilated and Adi answers, “Of course I knew.