The monument is located in the south-east outskirt of Jakarta, where 7 army officers (6 of them were generals) were murdered in 1965. The murders triggered the infamous mass killing of Indonesia's leftist groups, and opened the way for Soeharto's military regime which started from 1967 to 1998.
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