FALSE "CONFESSION" WRUNG FROM AIDIT?
The Tokyo daily.Asahi: Shimbun published a. dispatch February 8 from. its Djakerta correspondent claiming that D.N.Aidit, head of the Indonesian Communist party,had made a "conféssion": of some fifty § . pages in which he admitted to having “instigated" the attempted coup d'etat of September 40. Doe
The Japanese newspaper. likewise.published a photograph showing fidit surrounded by army. officers as he "edited" the purported confession. #fterward, according:to the article, he was questioned briefly, then taken:to a mountain twenty miles west of Solo and killed with two shots. His body: was buried and later dug up and cremated.
Aiait is alleged to have admitted that he Launched the coup -dtetat “prematurely ," it having been previously planned not to try to seize power Mantil ¥970." He hastened action, however, because army. officials "learned": about the project. The fifty pages alleg- . edly signed by Aidit were elso purported to contain expressions of - "regret" that no support had been forthcoming from the "Communist countries," and in particular from “China. "
“While neither Sukarno nor the generals who have converted: the Indonesian president into a.virtual captive have stated publicly that Aidit was arrested and then murdered while in their hands, the rumors persist that he was executed on or about November 22.
It is highly dubious: that Aidit made any. voluntary "confession." Under torture he may have put his name to papers concocted by the generals who now control the Indonesian government and who launched. a nationwide massacre of "Communists" and persons suspected of being "Communists." Perhaps the military plotters thought that such a "