December 2, 2013
Raymond (the Turk) Westerling had a license to kill during the 1947 counter-insurgency operation in South-Celebes during the Indonesian war of independence. The Dutch government gave him carte blanche to restore ‘law and order’.
Bersiap = Genocide
November 27, 2013
At the beginning of the Indonesian war of independence in 1945 between 3,500 and 30,000 (mostly Indo) Dutch were butchered by violent gangs. Two major Dutch newspapers last week printed the following headline: Continue reading “Bersiap = Genocide”
“Forgiven, but never forgotten.”
October 16, 2013
Jawa Pos, Front page. Gunawan Sutanto, Jakarta
Max van der Werff from The Netherlands tries to find old traces of the Indonesian Independence war.
Found one of the victims from torturing in Sutodjajan alive
Indonesian Youth honour Dutch victims of bersiap 1945
October 12, 2013 – Surabaya
Youth from Surabaya, accompanied by members of the Dutch-Indo community and Dutch veteran Anton van Apeldoorn put flowers on the graves of Dutch citizens killed during the bersiap period in 1945.
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Sukarno: the greatest Dutchman of all times
Indonesia Calling
January 13, 2013
New twist in dodging Dutch war crimes investigations
Three Dutch institutions asked funding from their government to do research into the events of Indonesia´s war of independence 1945-49. End of December 2012 Minister of Foreign Affairs Timmermans responded: “Indonesia thinks it is not a good idea”.
The institutions – the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), the Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD) and the Dutch Institute for Military History (NIMH) – expressed their ‘disappointment’.