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Bush: Indonesia’s Suharto 'Will Be
Missed'
From wire reports
January 28, 2008, Solo, Indonesia—Former Indonesian president
Suharto died of “multiple organ failure” after three weeks on life
support. A state funeral was held Monday in Solo, Suharto’s home town. He
was laid to rest in a family mausoleum.
President Bush offered condolences to the family of the former
dictator, whose U.S.-backed regime ranks among the most brutal in
history. It has been estimated that he killed as many as 1,100,000 of his
own people.
“He will be missed,” said Bush in a statement released Sunday by the
White House. “He was a valuable ally to our country who killed over a
million communists within the borders of his country. Left-wingers in our
country don’t know how good they have it here.” (Posted 4:33 a.m. ET)
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