No need to blame each other

No need to blame each other

From Suara Karya

Upon his release after serving 17 years in prison for
involvement in the failed Sept. 30, 1965, communist movement, A.
Latief, a former field commandant in the murder of Army generals,
said he would straighten out the historical record as regards
this incident.

An ex-platoon commandant of the presidential guard unit,
Bungkus, who was also jailed for complicity in the same movement,
said the defunct Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) had never
tortured the generals assassinated 38 years ago.

In fact, with the confessions of a former leader of the PKI
and a surviving eyewitness held hostage by the PKI, Sukirman,
show that the party was the mastermind and the generals were
tortured before being slain. Thus, there is no need to set the
record straight.

Latief and Bungkus should therefore be aware of their serious
offenses and apologize to the nation so that they can join their
fellow citizens to develop the country, instead of blaming others
or history.

Let us forget the bitter past and avoid finding fault with
each other through unnecessary disputes as such arguments will
not solve anything and may even arouse a desire for vengeance,
which will doom the nation to ruin rather than improvement.

SUCIPTA

Jakarta