Whores and razorblades: the tentacles of the Indonesian genocide in 1965/6
“I have never used a razorblade while shaving”, Mr Kang said, pensively stroking his clean-shaven chin. “Fortunately Philips has been producing electric razors for a long time. Otherwise I would have walked around with a beard!” Mr Kang was 15 years old when the Indonesian army assisted by youth groups went on a rampage and massacred probably a million people. Most of them had leftists sympathies, they were teachers, artists, workers, farmers or anybody with whom a prominent supporter of these murderous gangs had a quarrel with.
