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It's 50 years since the purges in which an estimated half million suspected communists were killed. Eric Sasona is a contributor to Â鶹Éç Indonesian. He was born after the massacre, but the killings were a powerful influence in his own background. Picture: Indonesian troops bar students from the Presidential Palace following the abortive Communist coup of 1965. Picture credit: Keystone/Getty Images