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Nun gut, schlagt die Ratten tot. Aber zündet nicht das ganze Haus Indonesien an!
Sukarno
English "In the initial period after the coup effort, Sukarno apparently hoped for an interval during which passions would die down. Early in December [1965] he adopted a new tack. In an address to the People´s Consultative Congress, he went so far as to describe the Communists as "rats which have eaten a big part of the cake and tried to eat the pillar of our house." He added, "Now let´s catch these rats, and I will punish them, but in catching the rats we should not burn the house.
Sukarno