Indonesia the Dutch no longer can see colonisation in rosy terms

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The Dutch East India Company (VOC) established a trade presence in the Indonesian archipelago in the 17th century, beginning the history between the Dutch an.

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A Dutch special forces soldier who was one of three commandos shot outside an Indianapolis hotel at the weekend has died.. The Netherlands Ministry of Defence said the unidentified soldier passed.

Unknown Dutch soldier smiling with Indonesian guerilla he captured earlier during a routine


Background A bunker of the Peel-Raam Line, built in 1939. The Dutch colonies such as the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia) caused the Netherlands to be one of the top five oil producers in the world at the time and to have the world's largest aircraft factory in the Interbellum (Fokker), which aided to the neutrality of the Netherlands and the success of its arms dealings in the First World.

War cemetery for Anzac, British and Dutch soldiers killed in World War Two, Ambon, Indonesia


Possibly as many as 200,000 Indonesians died in the conflict, as well as more than 4,600 Dutch soldiers. As in most counter-guerrilla wars, captured fighters were routinely tortured to force them.

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After the Second World War, the Netherlands sent troops to Indonesia as soon as possible to occupy the archipelago once again. But the nationalists there had since declared independence. The result was a bloody decolonisation war. An estimated 100,000 Indonesians died as a result of the Dutch actions as opposed to as few as 5,000 Dutch soldiers.

Three eastern Indonesians from the Dutch colonial era, late 19th century. History, Historical


Between 100,000-150,000 Indonesians were killed during the war, compared to the relatively light Dutch death toll of 4,500. [91] While the conflict lasted from 1945-1949, most of the violence occurred within short intervals of each other; the First and Second Police Actions lasted for less than three weeks while Westerling's South Sulawesi.

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In their publication Over de grens (Over the Border) the 17 authors have presented their main conclusions: Dutch troops used extreme violence such as executions, torture and arson of villages more often than was thought. The violence was systematic and went unchecked. The reason: the war against the Republic of Indonesia had to be won and the Netherlands wanted to be in charge of the.

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In 1992, the Indonesian journal Tempo claimed that there had been 60,000 victims, without mentioning its sources. (Numbers quoted by Brigitte Ars, Troostmeisjes ('Comfort Girls'), Amsterdam 2000, page 145.) Allied soldiers killed in action: The number of Allied soldiers killed in South-East Asia and the Pacific was over 140,000.

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Dutch soldiers killed in the Indonesian War of Independence: The average number of the troops in the Dutch East Indies in the period 1946-1949: Royal Dutch Army: 70,000KNIL: 40,000Marine Brigade: 5,000. We should emphasise that this is the average strength of the land forces present in the Dutch East Indies in the years 1946-1949.

Patrol Gang. Dutch soldiers in single file through a blooming field Date 01/01/1947 Location


19 Oct 2020. The government of the Netherlands has said it will offer compensation to the children of Indonesians who were executed by Dutch soldiers during the Indonesian War of Independence.

Poerwakarta Dutch soldiers drive into a city Date 01/01/1947 Location Indonesia Dutch East


Indonesian authorities claim some 40,000 people were killed during the fighting, while most Dutch historians estimate the dead at about 1,500.. soldiers for the killings despite a U.N. report condemning the attacks as "deliberate and ruthless" as early as 1948. The 2013 apology by the Dutch ambassador cleared the way for the biggest-ever.

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The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (Dutch: Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger; KNIL, Dutch pronunciation:) (Indonesian: Tentara Kerajaan Hindia Belanda) was the military force maintained by the Kingdom of the Netherlands in its colony of the Dutch East Indies, in areas that are now part of Indonesia.The KNIL's air arm was the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force.

Indonesian and Dutch soldier pose by a sign indicating the ceasefire line during the Indonesian


Last year, Gert Oostindie published a book about the Dutch military in the Indonesian Revolution. He is now touring with Ireen Hoogenboom, who contributed greatly to the book, in Indonesia to promote the translated edition, Serdadu Belanda di Indonesia, 1945-1950.There has been a lot of interest, and as well as some emotional encounters. Last year, we published a book about the Indonesian.

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Netherlands apology for Indonesia 1940s killings. The Netherlands has made a formal public apology for thousands of summary executions carried out by Dutch troops in its former colony of Indonesia.

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The absence of Indonesian victims in Dutch memory culture makes this painfully obvious: until now, no one has ever even attempted to calculate the Indonesian death toll of this war.. it is posited that Republican forced lost a total of ca. one hundred thousand men in the years '45-'49 - Dutch military historians consider this a.

Tapanoeli [2nd Police Action] [Dutch soldiers running across an open field with arms at the


Contents. Indonesian mass killings of 1965-66. Large-scale killings and civil unrest primarily targeting members of the Communist Party (PKI) were carried out in Indonesia from 1965 to 1966. Other affected groups included alleged communist sympathisers, Gerwani women, trade unionists, [14] ethnic Javanese Abangan, [1] ethnic Chinese, atheists.

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