Tag: purges

False posts claim ‘8 million Buddhists killed’ in Indonesia anti-communist purges

Posts repeatedly shared in Myanmar falsely claimed Muslims massacred “eight million Buddhists” in Indonesia in 1965, completely wiping out Buddhism in the archipelago. Multiple scholars told AFP the posts, which shared unrelated photos, misrepresented mass killings in Indonesia in the mid-1960s which they said targeted communists and not Buddhists. The latest government data showed there […]

Russia is tellingly talking about “purges” in occupied territories – ISW

Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, has described Russia’s plans for repressions against Ukrainian citizens in the occupied territories of Ukraine, and the FSB conducted searches in the Jehovah’s Witnesses community in occupied Mariupol. Source: Institute for the Study of War (ISW) Details: Medvedev said that Ukrainian citizens in […]