He was one of the executioners who killed the "Communists" in Indonesia. It is unbelievable that, nearly half a century later, in this extermination operation that killed one million people, he and the other executioners still have not been tried, and of course there is no memorial to the victims, and there is no truth.
Before 1965, Anwar was a ruffian at the door of the local movie theater. He and his friends were scalpers selling Hollywood movie tickets. He also liked watching those gangster movies. Marlon Brando) is especially adored.
The Indonesian Communist Party and leftists boycotted the import of American films, ruining Anwar's jobs.
"The word 'hooligan' comes from the English Free men. Hooligans want to behave freely, no matter what they do," Indonesia's vice president said in a speech to the military group Pancasila Youth. No, but as long as we can deal with them, we just need to guide them." The
government and the military didn't want to get their hands dirty in dealing with these "communists", so Anwar and the other "rogues" were given New jobs, firing squads, and freedom to act - massacre at will the "communists" he hated, and he killed more than a thousand people in total.
Anwar Gango still relishes his slaughter of "Communists". He claims that he invented the wire killing method, which can reduce bleeding and make it clean.
The philosophy of Adi, the captain of the firing squad at the time:
"Murdering is the worst crime you can commit, so the key is to find a way to make yourself not feel guilty. It all depends on finding the right reason."
"If someone asks me to kill, just repay Appropriate, of course I'll go. There's nothing wrong with that in a way, that's a view we have to believe. When George W. Bush was in power, Guantanamo was right and Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. It's all wrong now. The so-called 'war crimes' are defined by the winner. I win and I have the final say."
"It's not good to uncover the truth, such as reopening the case. Even if all you find is the truth, it's not good."
"Well, then you should start with the first murder in the world, Cain killing Abel. Why are you just staring at killing the Communist Party? Americans are killing Indians. Re-opening this case is a declaration of war in my opinion. If the world wants to fight, I'm ready."
Director Joshua Oppenheimer (Joshua Oppenheimer) arranged for Anwar and his subordinates and friends to use their own way of acting in this "non-fiction film" to reproduce the circumstances of their torture and murder in the past.
In one scene, Anwar played the role of a "Communist" who was provoked and forced to confess. After being "abused", "beaten" and "hanged by wire", he finally seemed to realize the feelings of countless "Communists" who had been treated like this by him. But the director told him that they actually felt worse because you knew you were in a movie and they just knew they were going to be executed.
In addition to Anwar's favorite gangster films and westerns, he also directed segments of musicals.
In another scene, in front of the waterfall among the green mountains, a group of fairies swayed, with Anwar standing at the highest point. The two ragged men beside him were the "Communists" he killed in those years. They took off the shiny wire ring from their necks and threw them away. They took out a golden medal and hung it around Anwar's neck. While singing: "We are so grateful, you sent us to heaven."
After finishing his "movie", Anwar once again returned to the yard where the "Communists" were first executed with wire, this time he Started to feel sick to this horrible place and kept throwing up. . .
Regarding group criminal psychology, there is such a view: obeying the instigation of others will make you stronger because you come to the group. Each thinks that he has done something very meritorious, and has received the approval of countless compatriots, his thoughts will become natural. Legal crime, but not necessarily psychological.
Hannah Arendt once said: “Where there are masses, there can be totalitarian movements”.
And the totalitarian movement needs a fanatical leader. Once he has extraordinary willpower, he can pass his beliefs to the masses and arouse approval. The initial ideals, ambitions, and even the subsequent gangster behavior can no longer simply be dominated and changed by the leader.
In "The Reader", a gangster-like little character like the heroine Hannah was also brought to the trial seat. She was psychologically distorted. Her personal cultural level and experience in that Nazi era made her unable to learn from the law, Ethically and morally, she can make accurate judgments about what she is going to do. She has always used group criminal psychology to comfort and guide herself.
And when she truly realizes the fear, guilt, and guilt that everything brings to her, she finally, like Anwar, shows her true human side.
"Deduction of Killing" is what I think is by far the best interpretation of mass crime, a living textbook.
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