Chapter 595 is ready to go
With the development of Blackwater International, the people who can use it are naturally not more than 10,000 people who have come to Indonesia. Even if it is elite, it is far more than this number. However, several high-level bosses, including Zhao Lao and He Lao, have hinted to Tang Yu in the open and secret that they went to Indonesia this time. Under no circumstances can it be in the name of the country, but only in the name of the individual, or in the name of Blackwater International. The relationship between Indonesia and the Chinese is already very tense. At this time, it is naturally not suitable for a large number of Chinese with armed forces to flood in. Moreover, if the Chinese participate in the exchange of fire, it will not be easy to deal with it afterwards. However, Blackwater International brings elite soldiers from Russia, Lithuania, Belarus and other places this time. There was not a single Chinese. After the incident, the country not only had to hold Indonesia accountable for the anti-Chinese incident, but also made them break their teeth and swallow it, so that the Indonesian authorities would suffer a dumb loss in the hands of Blackwater International.
The weapons carried by Zhigongtang are not comparable to Blackwater International. Although Zhigongtang is known as the branch of Hongmen and develops in places like the United States, there will be no shortage of weapons. However, compared with Blackwater International, it is simply a comparison between the U.S. military equipment in the 1940s and 1950s with North Korea, which is not on the same level at all.
When Situ Lei saw those weapons, his eyes immediately showed green light. Naturally, Tang Yu would not treat these brothers who came all the way to help. He immediately asked Blackwater International to urgently call a batch of weapons and ammunition to supplement the people in the court.
Thanks to the abundant weapons and ammunition prepared by Blackwater International, there are still a lot of savings after meeting the needs of Situ Lei. The amount of ammunition allocated to each person is enough to support the individual author for ten days.
At this time, the situation in Indonesia has reached the verge of breaking out. Nearly 20,000 armed forces have poured into the country. Naturally, the Indonesian authorities will not be unaware of it. By May 9, Suharto's table was full of information about Blackwater International. Obviously, this is a company in China. The security company developed with the support of the bureau. Without the support of a country, Blackwater International can't get so many combat-power fighters and a large number of weapons and ammunition.
Retired soldiers may not lose their combat effectiveness. On the contrary, because they have been in the army for many years, they are full of combat experience and physical strength. You can imagine what kind of battle will break out after these people get enough training, full salary and advanced weapons in Blackwater International. Come on.
Before Blackwater International, these retired veterans did not have a skill in society. They were most of the people at the bottom of society, and some of them fell into evil ways under the pressure of life. Now Blackwater International not only solved their way back, but also helped many aspects of the country. For Tang Yu and the country, This is a win-win situation, but the country will not admit that the backer of Blackwater International is China.
At this time, the value of Blackwater International's force has grown to a very terrible level. If there is enough ammunition supply, it will be no difficulty for them to overthrow the regime of a middle-sized African country. If they go to the Middle East to participate in the war, they can take the initiative. It can be imagined that such a surge of violent elements How much shock will it cause to the Indonesian authorities?
In fact, at this time, Su Ha Tuo was already worried, and he felt like he was throwing a stone at his feet.
Why did he and his son-in-law, the Lieutenant General Praworth, known as the butcher executioner, plan this Chinese expulsion? In fact, they want to pass on the contradictions within Indonesian society, to let the people vent their dissatisfaction and transfer the contradictions to the government authorities to the Chinese who control most of Indonesia's wealth.
Pravos is the son-in-law of President Suharto, the commander of the Army's strategic reserve force and once served as the commander of the special forces. For his personal interests, he tried to create chaos, so that Vilando, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, could not restore the security of the capital. In this way, Pravos could force Suharto to declare military control. Then he came forward to control the situation. At the same time, it is embarrassing for Suharto's political opponent, Habiby, who is about to succeed him.
In fact, Pravos has been carefully curating this matter and starting to put the plan into practice. According to his plan, first of all, the military will come forward to bribe land ruffians, hooligans, underworld organizations, anti-flower groups and extremist forces to carry out preparatory activities. Moreover, he began to train thugs to arson, rob and rape Chinese women. He even promised to pay a clearly marked price, promising that every ** Chinese woman would be paid 20,000 Indonesian dong (about 2 US dollars), which will be implemented in mid-May.
Of course, his plan seems to be dead at this time. Although the thugs are already training, it makes him helpless. The demonstration of Blackwater International is too obvious. The influx of nearly 20,000 special forces personnel and the smuggling of a large number of individual weapons and even heavy weapons have brought him a lot. Troubled, if the military strength of Indonesia is used to fight against Blackwater International, there is no doubt that Blackwater International is definitely not an opponent, but can he do this? No, definitely not. That's the war. At this moment, Indonesia can't support a war at all. Even a small-scale war is enough to drag down their economic predicament at this time.
What makes Suharto and his son-in-law helpless is that with the influx of the armed forces of Blackwater International, they can't even protest against China, because there are almost no Chinese nationals among those people. Blackwater International has no nominally nothing to do with China, and China can completely ignore it. Therefore, Suharto Now it's a headache that his perfect plan to pass on contradictions has failed.
In another time and space, this plan was perfectly implemented by Pravos, but Suharto announced his resignation soon after, and Pravos's plan failed. After the Chinese exclusion incident, after Suharto resigned on May 21, the next day, the Indonesian Minister of Defense and Security and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, General Vilando He was immediately transferred to Bandung, the commander of the Army's Strategic Reserve Force, as the principal of the "Army Staff and Commander School" without military power.
However, what will fail this time is not only Praworth's plan, but also Suharto's plan to pass on contradictions.
At this time, Indonesia has reached a stage of internal contradictions. In 1998, it was fucked by the Western financial giants. The financial storm that swept across Asia broke out. The Indonesian government has been hit by an unprecedented impact. The number of extreme poverty in Indonesia has increased to 80 million this year, accounting for 40% of the total population. The people are living in poverty and the class contradictions are unprecedentedly fierce. The people are extremely dissatisfied with this, and the long-term accumulated anger is about to break out. There is no doubt that it will be accompanied by strikes, demonstrations and riots, seriously threatening the rule of the Suharto regime. In this case, the Suharto regime began to consider leading the volcanic lava to the least political power in Indonesian society - the Chinese.
The Chinese are the exhaust valve of the Suharto regime. For many years, whenever the people's grievances are about to burst the society, the exhaust valve will be activated, so that the political and economic rule of the Suharto family can avoid the impact and continue to exist. This is the darkest, most secret and indispensable part of Suharto's ruling structure, and its significance is the same as Hitler's massacre of Jews. Only by transforming class contradictions into national and ethnic contradictions, class anger into racial hatred, and at the same time promoting the Chinese as so-called residents who do not believe in Slanism, hateful infidels, can we maintain a social structure of exploitation and oppression. In this sense, racism is actually an indispensable component of any class ruling regime. Even the United States, which especially loves democracy, doesn't it use racial discrimination against black people as the exhaust valve for its social stability? Third, the KKK and the extreme Chinese exclusion forces in Indonesia actually respond to each other and seek the same spirit. The mainstream of the ruling group usually looks down on them, but they deeply understand the importance of the existence of extreme right-wing forces.
Suharto's consistent political skill is to regard the Chinese as a shield to maintain his dictatorship and corruption. In order to make the people's anti-corruption and anti-dictatorship movement lose direction every time, whenever the people's dissatisfaction movement reaches its peak, he will use the press, TV stations, radio stations and Indonesian aborigines. The jealousy of the achievements of Chinese in their careers and the blind hatred of extremists incite them to burn, kill, rob Chinese property and even ** Chinese women. After each burning, killing, robbery and ** incident, the hatred of Indonesian indigenous people for President Suharto will decrease, and the pressure of the Indonesian people against the rule of President Suharto will be reduced accordingly. In this way, Suharto's goal of continuing to rule Indonesia has been achieved.
With Chinese as his shield and high-pressure iron fist, his dictatorship successfully lasted for 32 years. Now, Suharto also wants to maintain his dictatorship in the Indian Medical College by such means. However, with Tang Yu's involvement in this matter, it is not so easy for him to succeed. In fact, He not only failed, but also had to bear great pressure for the previous public opinion. If those thugs who were specially trained were forced by Blackwater International to attack the Chinese, their impulse factors would only eventually be vented to the authorities of the Suharto regime.
In fact, in Indonesia at this time, there have been sores on the head and pus on the soles of the feet.
Under the dictatorship of Suharto, Indonesia is one of the most corrupt countries in the world. The Suharto family and their political allies used their privileges to gather a large amount of wealth. The 120 companies controlled by the Suharto family profited by signing contracts with the National Petroleum Company, and the state-owned oil company thus became the "cash cow" of the Suharto family. According to incomplete statistics, the property of the Suharto family exceeds 35 billion US dollars. The banks and enterprises they own are fearless, unscrupulous, and have a large amount of debt expansion. Indonesia's public-private foreign debt totaled more than 150 billion US dollars. The structure of the national economy is seriously distorted, and the banking system is very fragile. After being hit by the financial crisis, Indonesia's currency depreciated sharply. In July 1997, 2,400 Indonesian dong could be exchanged for one dollar, and by the end of 1997, it would take 17,000 Indonesian dong to exchange for one dollar. The Indonesian currency has depreciated more than sixfold. At the same time, Indonesia's stock index plummeted, investing $1 million in Indonesia in early 1997. If it retreats at the end of the year, it may only sell $60,000. Under the double blow of the foreign exchange market and the stock market, foreign investors have suffered heavy losses and have escaped from Indonesia in various ways.
The capital flight is still a small matter, and there is also a big problem with the food problem that is related to the people. In 1996 and 1997, due to the El Nino phenomenon, Indonesia suffered a severe drought and reduced food production.
Indonesia is located in the tropics, with fertile land and no shortage of food. Unexpectedly, famine soon occurred in many parts of Indonesia, and more than half of the residents live below the poverty line. It is very absurd that while the Indonesian government imports a large amount of grain, it still exports a large amount of grain and oil. The Indonesian government raised the export tariff on food and edible oil exports to 60%, which is still of no help. This principle is not complicated. Assuming that the price of a kilogram of rice in the international market is one dollar, it is equivalent to 2,400 Indonesian dong at the end of 1997. After the sharp depreciation of the Indonesian dong, if grain is smuggled and exported, one kilogram can still be exchanged for one dollar, which was equivalent to 15,000 dong in July 1998. Even if the price in Indonesia's domestic market doubles, it will only sell 4,800 dong in the domestic market. The profit of smuggled exported grain is more than 300%. Indonesia is an island country with limited naval forces, so it is difficult to effectively stop smuggling at sea. In the context of famine in China, there are still many profiteers smuggling and exporting food and oil. Due to the strong demand for edible oil in the international market, there is no supply of edible oil in many parts of Indonesia, and more than 20% of the people are already in a state of famine.
At the end of 1997, some United Nations organizations also expected Indonesia's economic growth rate to reach 3% in 1998, and Indonesia's national economy fell sharply by 16.5% in the second quarter of 1998. Economists in Singapore believe that the Indonesian economy has fallen by 15-20% since 1998. Due to the depreciation of the currency like a collapse, the chaotic economic order, and the basic suspension of domestic production, Indonesia has almost lost the ability to exchange exports. Even Indonesia has more than 50 billion US dollars of foreign debt due in the short term, and there is no possibility of repayment.
Due to a large number of bad debts in the bank, the capital turnover is not working well, and the bank interest rate is as high as 60%. This makes ordinary enterprises unable to bear the burden of loan interest at all, and many enterprises go bankrupt due to lack of liquidity. The unemployment rate has risen rapidly, breaking the historical record.
At the same time, prices are soaring, and the inflation rate is as high as 80%-100%. Enterprises generally freeze wages, and the number of people in extreme poverty has increased rapidly. The people are not living, and there is a loud voice of resentment. Hyperinflation has led to serious negative interest rates on bank deposits, accelerating the outflow of funds and making Indonesia's economy, which has seriously lost blood, even worse.
Even in April this year, gasoline and electricity prices, which have always been controlled by the government, have soared, seriously threatened the basic lives of the majority of residents, and finally led to a large-scale student movement against the Suharto government on the campuses of various universities in Jakarta, demanding the liquidation of the corruption of the Suharto family and the investigation of the economy. The responsibility of the crisis bureau. Tens of thousands of students occupied the parliament building for three days, and the student movement was in full swing, pointing directly at the corrupt Suharto family, which was also the beginning of the Chinese exclusion movement and one of Suharto's layouts. He was to guide contradictions.
In fact, on May 12, another time and space, after the Indonesian military and police shot and killed six demonstrators at Trikati University, it aroused strong protests from all walks of life. The situation in Jakarta will be completely out of control, but in this time and space The situation has not reached that point. Suharto is still hesitating whether to follow the steps to launch riots and unrest. The influx of a large number of armed forces must be to protect the Chinese. If you insist on it, it is not riots and rebellion, but war. The war will definitely be able to drag down his regime. For a For a politician, he always considers whether his interests will be lost. For the sake of interests, he can instigate Chinese riots and riots without hesitation. At the same time, for the sake of interests, he can also pretend to be a grandson to the Chinese. Everything is interests, which is the style of politicians.
At this time, Tang Yu was discussing the history of Indonesia with Situ Lei in Jakarta and analyzed why there was always a Chinese exclusion incident. At this time, the situation in Jakarta was on the verge of breaking out.