Talk to Al Jazeera - Joshua Oppenheimer: Indonesia's 'regime of fear'

Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer on documenting Indonesia's killings of 1965 through the eyes of perpetrators and victims.



It is one of history's greatest unknown crimes against humanity: More than a million people were brutally killed after Indonesia's military coup in 1965.

The victims were accused of being communists, an umbrella that included not only members of the country's Communist Party, but all those who opposed General Suharto's new military regime.


The killers were often members of paramilitary groups or death squads that carried out the executions with the approval of the military government and killed with impunity.