On 1 October 2025, Indonesia marks the 60th anniversary of the murders of six army generals that became the pretext of the 1965-66 Indonesian genocide. Ken M.P. Setiawan and Tintin Wulia, with the transnational collective 1965 Setiap Hari, reflect on Indonesia's recent efforts to recognise past human rights violations. They show how the unresolved history of 1965 continues to shape political impunity across successive governments, and highlight the importance of culture and c

Flanked by weaponry, with a museum book shop filled with literature about Hitler and Stalin, Imperial War Museum London might not be the first place to imagine learning about sexual violence. Last month, the well-curated special exhibition Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict did, however, open

On March 16th 2025, in defiance of a court order, 238 Venezuelan citizens were deported from The United States to El Salvador. None of the 238 had been formally charged with a specific crime. Rather, under the auspices of an emergency act from 1798, last used in World War 2, the Venezuelans were declared to be Enemy Aliens. The justification for the arrest and deportation of the Venezuelans is that they were judged by the United States government, who have not released any pr

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