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RSS FeedsDutch Memorial Day: Erasing People After Death
(WorldNews Netherlands)

 
 

17 august 2018 17:54:51

 
Dutch Memorial Day: Erasing People After Death
(WorldNews Netherlands)
 


As the anniversary of Indonesian independence from the Netherlands approaches, a close look reveals a Dutch narrative that erases people along racial lines. Indonesia declared independence from the Netherlands on Aug. 17, 1945. This followed 350 years of Dutch East India Company control and Dutch state rule, as well as Japanese occupation during WWII. After the declaration, the Netherlands waged a war to re-establish colonial control over Indonesia. The war, whose dead included Indonesians killed by description execution, cost an estimated 300,000 Indonesian lives compared with around 6,000 casualties on the Dutch side. In Indonesia, national identity has been built around anti-colonial...


 
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