Gert Oostindie, director of the Royal Institute for the
Knowledge of Language, Land, and People (KITLV) has said that the Netherlands
should order a major and systematic investigation of the largest war it has
ever carried out, the Colonial War, which led to Indonesian independence in
1948. During that conflict thousands of Dutch soldiers and civilians were
killed and about 100,000 Indonesians. Oostindie said that while there have been
major investigations of the Second World War and the Dutch involvement in Srebrenica,
never has there been such an investigation of the Indonesian Colonial War. There
are indications of large-scale war crimes. Oostindie added that it may well be
that the whole issue has been covered up by politicians in order to avoid
damage to the image of the Netherlands. An important question is whether the
violence was systematic. Recently a list was found in the National Archives of
victims of executions in the southern part of the Indonesian island which
nowadays is called Sulawesi. Monday, August 17, 2015
Research Institute: Investigate the War in Indonesia
Gert Oostindie, director of the Royal Institute for the
Knowledge of Language, Land, and People (KITLV) has said that the Netherlands
should order a major and systematic investigation of the largest war it has
ever carried out, the Colonial War, which led to Indonesian independence in
1948. During that conflict thousands of Dutch soldiers and civilians were
killed and about 100,000 Indonesians. Oostindie said that while there have been
major investigations of the Second World War and the Dutch involvement in Srebrenica,
never has there been such an investigation of the Indonesian Colonial War. There
are indications of large-scale war crimes. Oostindie added that it may well be
that the whole issue has been covered up by politicians in order to avoid
damage to the image of the Netherlands. An important question is whether the
violence was systematic. Recently a list was found in the National Archives of
victims of executions in the southern part of the Indonesian island which
nowadays is called Sulawesi. 
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